An analysis of U.S. Census Bureau reporting by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) showed nearly 600,000 immigrants have vanished from the U.S. labor force since January 2025, which the report attributed to the “Trump effect.” The CIS report also found that the United States’ total foreign-born population, both in and out of the labor force, declined 957,000 from January to May 2025. This represents the largest decline over a four-month period in the foreign-born population of the U.S. in the last three decades. Notably, non-citizens from Latin America who indicated they arrived in the United States in 1980 or later show a 1.07 million decrease from January to May 2025 and a 1.45 million falloff since December 2024.
