From the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS),
Overall Foreign-Born Population Down 2.2 Million January to July:
Illegal population estimated to have fallen 1.6 million this year.
The CIS published their analysis earlier this week and relies on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The number of foreign-born residents in America hit an all-time peak in January of this year at over 53 million. This level also represented the largest-ever foreign share of the American population in the nation’s almost 250-year history.
CIS has another nuggets to report,
Non-citizens accounted for all of the falloff in the total foreign-born; the naturalized U.S. citizen population has actually increased some since January.
About that much-maligned BLS jobs report for July, CIS concludes,
[It] actually shows significant job growth among the U.S.-born. Further, to the extent employment growth may have slowed overall, it is likely due to illegal immigrants leaving the country.
To be clear, the vast majority of the decline tracked by CIS in the non-citizen population comes from the departure of people originally from Latin America.
Judging by one of the CIS graphs, we’ve returned to the level of foreign-born that we had in early 2024.
Formal deportations have played a relatively small part in the departure phenomenon. The Washington Examiner reports that the daily rate of deportations has ramped up to above 1,400 per day. My guess is that we’ve seen about 250,000 deportations so far in 2025.
One step that I believe that is helping the process along is the increased federal prosecution of the crime of illegal immigration. I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been tracking the criminal prosecution of repeat (felony) illegal immigrants in the U.S. District of Minnesota. I’m up to 72 cases to date, since Trump began his second term. Most of the 72 have already been removed, all but one of whom hail from Latin America.
With few exceptions, the vast majority of those prosecuted have committed other (non-immigration-related) offenses. I’m not talking about parking tickets, these offenses include homicide, rape, and large-scale drug dealing, to name a few.
So much winning.
