By 2025, there was no shortage of immigration news. President Donald Trump campaigned for immigration reform and is now seeing through the renewal of immigration laws. For example, on Monday the Trump administration announced the withdrawal of Temporary protected state for Hondura and Nicaraguan immigrants – A measure that affects about 76,000 people.
Also on Monday, Border patrol agents descended over Macarthur Park In Los Angeles, California, in the midst of protesters who decipher immigration and the application of customs. During the last months, Ice has attacked jobs in Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Nebraskaamong others.
What does this mean for the recruitment landscape?
Wells Fargo economists said in a June report that the increase in immigration “went a long way to relieve … Historical labor deficiencies”, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Foreign -born workers recently represented 19% of the U.S. labor force, compared to 11% in the 1990’s.
“In all groups, immigration has been an important propeller of the growth of the work supply Over the years, Wells Fargo’s economists said. Since the beginning of 2020, immigrant workers have represented about three quarters of all work growth. The authors also said that foreign -born workers “are more likely to work or actively look for the work that their born counterparts.”
Federal agents detain a man as they patrol the immigration court halls in the Federal Building of Jacob K. Javitz on July 8, 2025 in New York City, New York.
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However, the labor -born abroad has decreased 150,000 between February and June 2025, compared to an increase of 186,000 during the same period of 2024, he found the report.
“Although the entrances of workers born abroad to the U.S. labor force are clearly in a downward trajectory, to what extent the exits weigh in the labor pool born abroad is less clear,” the authors wrote, saying that the average rate of deportations of Trump (737 people a day) is little different from the average rate of the former President Joe Biden. (742 people per day).
However, the report says that, even if “deportations are not struck materially, which is linked to immigrant entries and the growth of the slowest population, we will maintain the potential of historically adjusted workers,” said the authors. “Thus, hiring challenges that seemed like an anomaly following the pandemic and even in the late 2010 years, they could feel more and more as the rule.”
