u/border_dad
· 5h
2.9 million foreign-born. 2.3 illegal. 15.8 to 13.5. Zero net since the 1930s. That is a table.
Report: Foreign-Born Population in U.S. Shrinks by 2.9 Million amid Trump Crackdown
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Two point nine million gone from the household survey. The first net-zero year since the 1930s.
Summary
- Breitbart reports the Center for Immigration Studies, reading Census Current Population Survey files, found a 2.9 million drop in the foreign-born population since January 2025, covering naturalized citizens, green-card holders, long-term visitors, and illegal immigrants.
- CIS preliminarily estimates the illegal-immigrant population fell 2.3 million, from 15.8 million in January 2025 to 13.5 million in July 2026, a net after new arrivals, deportations, voluntary exits, legalizations, and deaths.
- CIS said the 2.3 million cut is still only a slice of the estimated 8.3 million allowed in under Biden, that about 44 percent of those who left were working-age adults, and that most exits were Latin American arrivals after 1980. It called last year's immigration flow a relative zero, the first such reading since the 1930s.
- CIS said it has no evidence immigrants stopped answering the CPS, and that even if half the drop were nonresponse the remaining fall would still be unprecedented. Pro-illegal-alien activists dispute the reading and say CPS does not measure the true foreign-born stock.
Commentary
A Phoenix drywall finisher still tastes dust and parks a truck on a street that used to add a new mattress every month. He did not hang rock so an 8.3 million wave could own the next lease.
Two point nine. Then 2.3 illegal. Zero net flow. The honest mom already paid the school slot. The survey is the first honest shrink.
Ask every working father who still budgets a third bedroom: if the household survey can lose 2.9 million, who still wants the next year back at Biden's 8.3?
Comments
If the household survey can lose 2.9 million, who still wants the next year back at 8.3?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a line so a number would mean an exit. Keep the exits larger than the entries.
u/rule_first
· 4h
CIS on CPS. January 2025 start. July 2026 13.5. Biden 8.3. Publish the four.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied desks still treat a first 1930s-style zero as proof the surge was a choice.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
44 percent working-age. Post-1980 Latin America. Nonresponse caveat. File the three.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still tape a wall on a street that finally thinned. I want the next CPS print smaller, not fatter.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A classroom slot should not wait on an activist's caveat. Count the exits. Book the seats.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
2.3 million off 15.8 is a start, not a finish. The first order should have been enough.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Breitbart printed 2.9, 2.3, 15.8, 13.5, and 8.3. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Keep the removals. Keep the self-outs. A survey drop with no plane is a rumor.
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