According to official U.S. Government statistics, in the two months from March 2025 to May 2025, the number of foreign-born workers in the U.S. workforce dropped by over one million.
As you can see from the graph above, the data are volatile. We’ve seen intervals of similar declines (Aug. to Dec. 2024) and intervals of big jumps (Dec. 2024 to Jan. 2025).
During the first few months of COVID, 2.5 million foreign-born workers left the U.S. workforce. But, within a year and a half, the number had recovered to its pre-Covid level.
It’s a start.
