President Donald Trump’s administration has reduced the nation’s illegal alien population by 1.6 million in the last six months, likely through intense interior immigration enforcement, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals.
In an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, CIS researchers Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler found that between January and July, Trump has overseen an “unprecedented” 2.2 million-person decline in the nation’s total foreign-born population — 1.6 million of whom are illegal aliens.
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“Analysis of the [Current Population Survey] data shows the total foreign-born population of all ages, both in and out of the labor force, declined an unprecedented 2.2 million from January to July – the largest six-month decline ever within the same year,” the researchers
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