Immigration to U.S. declines for first time in 50 years, study shows

For the first time in a period of more than half a century, immigrants, who left the United States more than arriving, are a phenomenon that shows that President Trump’s efforts to deport historical masses have an intended effect.

The analysis of the census data published by the Pew Research Center on Thursday, said that the US -born population fell by more than one million people between January and June.

Millions of people came to the border between 2021 and 2023 and took refuge in America after the Covid-19 Pandemic emergency, which destroyed most of their countries. According to Pew, in 2023, California hosted 11.3 million immigrants, approximately 28.4% of the national total.

In January, 53.3 million immigrants lived in the US, the highest number was recorded, but in the following months, the rest or deported ones have overcome the arrivals – the first decline since the 1960s. As of June, the number of people living in the United States fell to 51.9 million. Pew did not calculate how many immigrants were undocumented.

Trump and his supporters applauded the migration by proclaiming the President. A social media post This month.

“Seven months before the second period, the President of the President was re -establishing the laws and orders from our nation and removing the violent illegal immigrants from our nation.

However, some experts warn that if such decreases continue, the US will have negative economic effects on the US, resulting in a shortage of labor as long as the US birth rate continues to decrease.

UCLA Business Center Project Director Victor Narro said, “When we look forward in the future, we will have to trust the immigrant workers to fulfill most of the jobs in this country,” he said. “Whether it likes or likes, demography will change in this country. It is already changing, but in the future, especially with the decline in indigenous -born workers.”

The Pew analysis emphasizes various policy changes that affect the number of immigrants in the country, starting from the time of President Biden.

In June 2024, Biden signed a statement that prevented the search for asylum along the Mexican border along the US border when the transitions were high, which was designed to make the country more difficult without allowing the country.

Trump, who campaign on challenging migration policies, signed an executive order on the first day of his second period and declared a “invasion” on the southern border. The movement seriously restricted people who came among the entrance ports from the search for asylum or by calling other guards that would enable them to remain temporarily in the USA.

The widespread immigration practice operations in Southern California began in June and began to return from defenders and local leaders. After the raids caused scattered protests, the Federal Government responded by deploying thousands of maritime and national guard troops to La.

Internal security agents have arrested 4,481 documents in the Los Angeles region since June 6. The agency said this month.

Narro said that the decrease in immigrants mentioned in the study may not be as severe as the numbers suggests due to a decrease in response rates due to increasing application.

Narro said, “For fear of deportation to today’s climate, with fear of being arrested or detained by ice – everything that comes out of Trump administration – people will be less willing to participate in the surveys and documents that are included in these reports,” he said.

Michael Capuano, the Research Director of the American Immigration Reform Federation, who advocated a decrease in migration, said that the figures are prone in the right direction.

“We see this as a positive start, Cap Capuano said. “Obviously the application on the border is working now. The population is starting to decrease. We want to see that this trend is continuing because the policy of the last four years has been proven to be sustained.”

Capuano does not accept that the decrease in immigrants will cause problems for the country.

“We don’t believe this will be a big deterioration,” he said. “There is no space for Americans to work.

In 2023, with full data last year, 33 million immigrants were part of the country’s labor force, including about 10 million documents. According to Pew, approximately 19% of the workers migrated 15% in 2023 years ago.

“Immigrants are a major part of American society, Tob said Toby Higbie, Professor of History and Labor Studies in UCLA. “Currently, the Federal Government rules all immigrants from this society, but this will not happen. It will not happen because immigrants will fight against it and our country needs immigrant workers to employ the economy.”

In the 1930s, the United States had a negative net migration as a result of government pressure and return programs, where they abandoned at least 400,000 Mexican and Mexican American countries during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Shortly thereafter, the USA in 1942, millions of US citizens of the US II. During World War II, he implemented the Brapero program, which he allowed him to work in to address labor shortages.

Higbie predicts that if the prices on the goods rise, especially due to labor shortage, the decline in migration will not last long.

“Here you can say that there is a cycle that we invite immigrants to work in our economy, and then there is a political reaction by some in our country and they throw them back and then we invite them back.” “I suspect that the Trump administration will propose a guest worker program to maintain a docile immigrant labor after the ruthless process of deporting people.”