The number of foreign-born workers in the United States is now just under 32 million, representing an all-time high and rising nearly 10 million in the past three years alone under the Biden government, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Labour.
The percentage of foreign-born workers is also at a record 18.5 percent as of August this year, breaking the previous record of 18 percent set in 2022, with records dating back to 1996. The total number of foreign nationals arriving in the country to work each month is 65,000 higher this year than compared to 2022.
The rise comes following the Biden government issuing a staggering one million work visas last year – a 25-year high – with around 500,000 green cards granted, in addition to the skyrocketing levels of illegal migration marching across the Southern Border.
Yet, despite the increase, the Biden government announced it would nearly half a million – 470,000 – Venezuelans work permits as a means of “easing the financial strain on major migrant destinations.”
The vast majority of foreign workers seldom find employment in higher-paying industries due to language or vocational restrictions. Worse still, “foreign-born workers often don’t have the time or the wealth to enter a costly training process” for a higher-paying job, explains Ryan Nunn, a researcher at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve.
