Foreign-born population dropped by historic number during Trump's first 6 months in office, analysis finds

Foreign-born population dropped by historic number during Trump’s first 6 months in office, analysis finds


New population statistics show that President Donald Trump has been successful so far in reversing the inflow of immigrants, both legal and illegal.

The current population survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that the foreign-born population dropped by an unprecedented 2.2 million people between January and July, the first few months of Trump’s second term.

The loss of 1.6 million in the illegal alien population constituted about a 10% drop.

Further, an analysis of the survey results by the Washington, D.C.-based research institute Center for Immigration Studies found that of those, about 1.6 million were illegal aliens.

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The CIS said that the drop in illegal aliens was likely due to “increased out-migration in response to stepped-up enforcement” of immigration law and called the drop in the foreign-born

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