Peter Navarro, former senior counselor for trade and manufacturing under President Donald Trump, stated in an exclusive interview that nearly all new jobs created during the Biden administration have gone to newly arrived migrants. Speaking with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on The Alex Marlow Show podcast, Navarro linked mass immigration to free trade policies that drive down wages and displace American workers.
“Both capital and labor are mobile,” Navarro explained. “So, depending on conditions, you’re in Britain, and the next thing you know, you got the world coming into your factories willing to undercut your wages by a significant amount.”
Under President Joe Biden, Navarro claimed that virtually all new job growth has gone to illegal aliens and legal immigrants rather than American citizens. “Immigration is fine if it benefits a country, but [not] if it totally destroys a country,” he said. “If you look at the net new job creation during the Biden administration, virtually all of the new jobs were taken by illegal [immigrants], and virtually all the people who lost their jobs were American citizens. I mean, that is freaking insane.”
Data from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) supports Navarro’s claim. A review of Bureau of Labor Statistics data found that between January 2020 and January 2025, 88 percent of U.S. job growth went to migrants—60 percent of whom are illegal aliens. While migrants gained more than 4.7 million jobs under Biden, employment for native-born Americans increased by just 645,000 jobs, meaning Bidenomics created 7.3 migrant jobs for every job gained by an American.
At the same time, a near-record share of working-age U.S.-born men remain out of the labor force. As of April 2024, 43 million working-age native-born Americans were not in the labor force, about 8.5 million more than in 2000. The share of working-age native-born American men not in the labor force has risen from 11 percent in 1960 to 22 percent in 2024. If today’s labor force participation rate matched that of the 1960s, roughly 9 million more men would be in the workforce.
For years, declining labor force participation among native-born Americans has led many in both parties to push for increased immigration to fill U.S. jobs rather than incentivizing jobless Americans to rejoin the workforce.
