As President Trump, DHS and ICE continue the border enforcement and deportation effort there are some statistics now worth reviewing.
The U.S. Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is reporting a population decline of 3 million foreign born persons in the USA as a result of the ongoing Trump administration effort to locate, capture and remove illegal aliens. Obviously, it has taken time to get up to speed on the overall deportation side of the issue; however, Trump has effectively removed a year of open border entrants.
The current number of foreign-born persons is now at the Jan 2024 level and declining as the four years of the Biden surge are being removed.
There is still a long way to go, and against the Lawfare opposition it has been a tough slog. It also took a long time for DHS, CBP and ICE to retool and get up to speed. That said, the pace of exfiltration is now faster than before. More illegals are being identified and removed at a faster pace.
Additionally, as word spreads about the consequences of not self-deporting, more unlawful migrants are now reevaluating their risk. While it is still early, the pace is rapid enough to completely eliminate the Biden surge. There is more optimism for that outcome than before. The issue now is one of political resolve against a hardened, leftist, communist, internal enemy who support open-borders.
♦ The total foreign-born population declined 2.9 million from January 2025 to July 2026. This follows an 8.3 million increase in the prior four years during the post-Covid border surge.
♦ Only 44 percent of the decline in the foreign-born are workers; the rest are children, the elderly, and other non-workers. This fact, along with employment gains by the U.S.-born, mitigates the impact on the labor market and may help explain why the survey of businesses does not show a dramatic decline in workers.
♦ The number of immigrant workers has declined by a little less than 1.3 million, but the number of non-working immigrants is down 1.6 million. Overall, only 44 percent of the decline in immigrants is among workers, even though 60 percent of the foreign-born were workers in January 2025. Those who are not working are primarily children, the elderly, full-time caregivers, and others who are not employed. The disproportionate decline among non-workers, along with employment gains by the U.S.-born mitigates the labor market impact of the decline in immigrant workers and may help explain why the survey of businesses that measures nonfarm payroll employment still shows an increase in jobs held.
♦ Employers and those who advocate for them may worry that the huge decline in immigrants will have a large impact on the economy. However, only 44 percent of the decline in immigrants is among workers. This fact, along with employment gains by the U.S.-born mitigates the impact on the job market and may help explain why the survey of businesses that measures jobs has not shown a dramatic decline in workers. (read full report)
Made my day.
Pissed off immigration lawyers certainly make my day.
Jailed illegal alien hiring employers would make my day even better.
It’s not going to happen. Our judicial system will be bogged down to the point that it will takes YEARS for any criminal accusations to be prosecuted. Look at the Lawfare that we already have.
After the Covid lockdowns when courts were closed, it took 4 to 5 years to lessen the backlog.
Every pro-immigration lawyer and judge will do their best to file continuances and all sort of paperwork to slow the prosecutions to zero.
Very few employers will ever be prosecuted. Civil fines range from $300 to $2,000. It will cost the taxpayers much more than that to have enough attorneys to bother with this avenue of disincentivizing hiring illegals.
PDJT is choosing to change the market for illegal labor by removing the Supply of Labor instead of dealing with the Demand for Labor.
fines into the US treasury work for me
if they are used to pay down the national debt
fees for H1B visas should be increased to $10,000 annually and should also be paid to the Treasury to pay down the national debt (both for the employee and the employer)
H1B visa fees are going up to over $100,000 annually
Get rid of H1B altogether. Train American Workers.
I disagree with your last statement.
If the numbers are accurate, it shows that at least up until now, the supply is there.
The entire illegal invader ecosystem could implode tomorrow and it wouldn’t be soon enough. Cutoff all free taxpayer money supporting the invaders and the exodus would rapidly increase
Not only do American taxpayers foot the bill for these immigration attorneys, but in Dem states the prosecuting attorneys will use a criminal’s illegal status as a reason NOT to prosecute their other, often abhorrent, crimes:
“Migrant criminals are not only being increasingly served by free immigration attorneys, but are also receiving a helping hand from the very prosecutors tasked with holding them accountable. Democrat district attorneys across the country are actively weighing the risk of deportation when considering charges and sentencing against non-citizen defendants.”
https://ijr.com/discover/article/exclusive-public-attorneys-doing-way-more-for-illegal-migrants-than-you-might-think-3c27ffe8-43de-4d8d-8e91-fa53dc94bade
Deport, deport, deport. And then, deport some more.
Sorry…not sorry.
Head em’ up is how these people were trafficked into our Nation by governmental, “Non-governmental ( NGOs)”.
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And now we can send them home on nice fast jets.
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Hasta ‘nunca’, Baby !
We need lots of -nice fast jets- deport another 27 + millions (?)beauties…..
strap a parachute on their backs and LET EM RIP!
Maybe they need a new line of work? The blacksmiths said the same thing when the automobile came out. They adapted.
Aw, darn; NOT! Way to go, Trump Administration; woo-hoo!!!
Good! Maybe it will get worse for her!
Maybe she should learn to code.
Or go to work in a coal mine, I understand they are hiring.
Oh, well.
Based on current law. Which is the same law that it was before, but now it’s enforced.
YOOHOO!
correction lol – its never been this good
It’s Americans in the majority that voted for this. How about telling them the truth, counselor? They can try to become US citizens, just do it legally and bring added value. The US can not survive being the world’s support charity of choice.
It’s not just Trump. It’s Stephen Miller, it’s Congress and it’s THE AMERICAN CITIZENRY!
Donald Trump’s America?
Donald Trump is our PRESIDENT, not the king you leftists keep wanting him to be.
America belongs to Americans, and Donald Trump is our President.
Thank you, Lord, for that merciful blessing.
Never been this good.
Get rid of them. Every last one of them!
Every last Juan!
Don’t leave out the Muhammeds.
Or the Patels.
There are 100 Million + Illegals according to Bovino. I am with Bovino.
Sundance’s source put the peak at 15.8 million illegals. Says it is down to 13.5. (Decimals from memory and may not be exact.)
Weird part to me is how people report that size since Bush. And report millions of new ones year after year.
Real numbers should be much larger by now. At least 50 million.
The source though is definitely anti-illegal.
As I said I am with Bovino on the numbers and in his level of alarm. Urban areas (mostly run by Communist Democrat) and their suburbs (mostly run by Communist Democrat) are overrun with Illegals. I see them everyday where I live -> Howard County, People’s Republic of Maryland.
Easily
Concur, 100%. No logical, moral reason for illegals.
“The issue now is one of political resolve against a hardened, leftist, communist,
internal enemy who support open-borders.”
It would be disingenuous to only mention them without also mentioning RINO’s. But good work so far. May the deportations increase
I’d argue that the squish republicans are integral to the “lack of political resolve” portion of the problem.
Thank you Sundance. Hopefully this gets visibility beyond CTH and gives people more reason to support Pres. Trump during the midterms.
Of course it is. The foreigners have relocated to the United States and increasing their number here so they are no longer foreign born. Have you ever counted how many kids and strollers trail behind many of these foreigners now living here?
This is what I voted for in 2024……wish it was faster but its always harder to fix errors.
3 million democrate voters
Good news or good news story?
“…against a hardened, leftist, communist, internal enemy who support open-borders.”
In other words, against DSA/Democrats/MSM.
add ….R I N O ‘ S……they love cheap labor…..
Requiring housing providers, banks and utility providers to only do business with citizens and lawful residents would make self-deportations solve 90% of the problem.
Start by enforcing the decades old felony laws on the books for those aiding and abetting illegals in giving them housing, employment, welfare, evading ICE, etc.
Prosecuting those people helping illegals in so many ways will go much further when there are real costs to them in choosing to do so.
What a GREAT story! Thank you President Trump.
I bet that a lot of “those who are not working” were on the government dole is one way or another. We know the children received free schooling and free meals while they were there. I cannot imagine how much free stuff we gave to these foreigners.
“Overall, only 44 percent of the decline in immigrants is among workers, even though 60 percent of the foreign-born were workers in January 2025. Those who are not working are primarily children, the elderly, full-time caregivers, and others who are not employed.”
OurLastStand: “I cannot imagine how much free stuff we gave to these foreigners.”
It wasn’t free. We pay for it
Yup. Anyone with a working brain cell can see why we’re 40 trillion in debt. Fraud and grift lead the way.
“Over 60% of illegal alien headed households are using at least one form of a welfare program, and usually more than one, at a cost of tens of billions of dollars to taxpayers”
https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/2031389239217131894
I would suggest it’s closer to high single-digit trillions of dollars
That’s why they came.
The gnashing of teeth among the legacy state media talking heads at this kind of news would make an entertaining reality TV episode.
I remember thinking, while listening to some of the gaslighting and outright lies among Democrat members during Brandon Gill’s recent hearing on birth tourism, “what part of illegal do you not get??” The U.S. has all the permissions it requires to allow in temp workers, if they are truly needed, to address labor shortages. But there is no valid reason for allowing millions of un-vetted people, many among the worst elements of their native societies, to crash our borders and then getting weepy and hysterical about it when they’re sent back home. Is the message from the Left’s caterwauling on the subject that the illegals’ home countries really are the hell-holes the president has said they are? No? Then what’s wrong with them going home, it’s their home for goodness’ sake!
i never expected the Trump administration to deport all of them in 18 months, not in a country where half the black robes are alien sympathizers and activists in their own right. But this administration has done more than any in my lifetime to address the problem of illegal immigration, and to reverse its trajectory, than any in the last 40 years.
That is saying something.
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The Dems invited them in so they could vote!
Gave them phones so they could sign up for welfare.; crashing befudgets and projects underway, the Dems are now complaining!
Gave them temporary housing, then looked for rentals, driving up the costs that the Dems are now complaining about.
Gave then food stamps, but they eat and buy more food, driving up the cost of food, that the Dems are complaining about!
Registered them in schools they couldn’t understand, causing violence, the Dems are complaining about.
THE DEMS CAUSED ALL THE 2028 POTUS ELECTION ISSUES FROM THE PREVIOUS 16 YEARS OF UNLIMITED IMMIGRATION!
It’s always somebody else’s fault with these moronic democommies.
don’t ignore the plummeting birth rates, worldwide
courtesy of those with no name
making depop their game
Teriffic good news!
I do not believe that even “IF, 3.0 million” it makes a material difference.
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Government statistic are wholly unreliable. … One must consider (albeit temper) illegal immigration statistics since 1990 or before.
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Even then the progeny and “chain migration” (until proven otherwise”) suggests there are 100 – 200 million yet in these United States who do not belong here as they are associated with “illegal immigrants”.
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Surveys (even the Unconstitutional – “American Community Survey”) are fraudulent attempts to “assimilate” those who will not “assimilate”.
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A more effective “survey” would begin with an effort to identify all islamic, hindu, sihk, and haitian, somalian and hispanic roman (universal followers; heterodox) worship and education centers, …
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Let US define “religion” as the “founders, framers, ratifiers” understood the “Word”. And, cease the “black robes” from advancing their “politicized, overreaching, ‘religion of feral government'”. … “The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their offices during good Behaviour”.
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“Defund, Dissolve and Defrock” … “such Judges (of any of supreme and inferior Courts” … which the Congress may[have previously] from time to time ordain and establish” … NO Impeachment Necessary.
LOL. “It’s Stephen Miller…”
The left always has to have a bogeyman behind the president.
To paraphrase Neil Armstrong: That’s one big step for Trump , one giant leap for America.
We need to ban Sharia. And cut off the benefits. But we’re moving in the right direction.
If we get lucky or God decides, with 6 more years of the same efforts, we could get rid of 20 million. This ball is just starting to roll.
The best is punish the employers and repeatedly emphasize the advantage of going home and applying for legal immigration to the U.S. Plus, the labor work force is changing tech mechanization (robots). Housing construction is labor intense but are jobs U.S. citizens are willing to do but not for nothing pay. Restaurants and hotel/motel are hives for illegal workers, unfortunately U.S. workers will more than likely ask for 25 buck an hour and all the benefits and there are a lot of lazy U.S. citizens.
This is where if you are receiving welfare you have to go and get a job, if you want to continue to receive welfare of any kind. Its common since. With less illegals there will be lots of jobs everywhere for everyone. whether they like it or not!
I pray to God that your analysis is right about the number being only 8.5 million that came in during those 4 years. That would surely be a miracle.
Unfortunately the number that was caught at the border, I believe, was 14 million. Unless they were deported and not let into the country, I thought that was the baseline. Then, according to some experts, there are at least 3 “got aways” for each caught. So that’s possibly 40-50 million on the lower end. That’s how I’ve understood it.
Border Hawk News
Commander Bovino faced bogus investigations to force his retirement.
https://borderhawk.news/exclusive-border-patrol-commander-bovino-says-cbp-commissioner-launched-bogus-investigations-to-force-his-retirement/
I am with Bovino. There are way more Illegals than are being reported by suspect stats.
Bovino’s assessment is credible.
I knew a man with first hand knowledge of the people and offices involved. Bovino’s outline of events is consistent with what is known about weaponization of investigations to settle internal political struggles.
Honor First. Bovino is an honorable man.
After his stint as USBP Chief, Scott joined Texas Public Policy Foundation founded by James Leininger who formerly worked for George H.W. Bush and Sam Walton.
https://www.texaspolicy.com/
If ICE spent a month in Gainesville, GA and Duluth, GA those two cities would be ghost towns.
Then we can tackle the bigger problem: Yankees!
The area I am in has a long history of Yankee invasion. Maybe even before the Civil War.
Yet their descendents are always complaining about the next wave of Yankees.
Are there any real southerners any more? Or just the children and grandchildren of Yankees who were born here?
Jim, there are Yankees and there are Northerners. Northerners tend to acclimate and assimilate whereas Yankees tend to criticise, complain and try to take over and change.
I am in the first group you mentioned. I moved south from the Midwest where we had four seasons,: winter; almost winter; barely winter; and construction.
Now I winter in the Rocky Mountains during ski season.
ICE needs to spread out across NY, they’re all here with drivers licenses, fake papers and stealing jobs and welfare. Same as CA but a much bigger state! When will illegal sanctuary cities be held accountable?
I don’t believe that… The only illegals that left this country where those who were physically deported… The rest of them are gonna take their chances.
I believe the CBP app states that two or 3 million people have actually self deported.
Well, it’s a start.
Why has our government never built a processing center on the border to process these immigrants crossing the border ?
Maybe because they want an illegal migration to America for their cheap labor, which in turn keeps American citizens wages down.
A win win for corporate America.
Real shocker–Biden’s 4-year foreign birth rate “outperformed” Obama’s 8-year foreign birth rate. That is unless you understand Obama’s first term rate was 2.9%, his second term rate was 3.4% and his third term rate was 8.3%. Of the 16.2% increase from 1/20/2002 to 1/20/2025, 14.6% of it is courtesy of the Democrat administrations spanning 12 of those 16 years.
No wonder we have so many NON-American voters with completely ANTI-American leanings. With this kind of “leadership”, we can only hope there is a United States of America in 50 years!!!!!
Good.
The administration is on the right track.
It’s difficult for many to realize the enormous inertia and adamant opposition Our President has had to face to get Any of this done.
The “8.3 million” under Biden was actually closer to 20,000,000.
NYPost reports Washington DC home prices have fallen and many homes sell below the original purchase price
“Nobody wants to live in our nation’s capital, dire figures show”
Deported / self-deported illegal aliens: 3,500,000
Illegal aliens entering the USA: 0
Laid-off / retired Federal workers: 360,000
These numbers are helping drive home prices down.
Next up: new Federal housing law that reduces government fees that contribute average of $132,000 to new construction homes.
Do you have a link to that 132000 stat you just wrote?
I notice that as deportations have greatly increased, the violent opposition seems to have waned significantly.
Could this be due to the heroic efforts of Secretary Bessent, as he wages war against the financial foundations of Leftist Terrorism here in America?
This is WINNING!
It should be a priority to remove Muslims, first. Next, we should remove foreign born who do not assimilate to our culture. The least self supporting groups should be removed from benefits and escorted to the border.
The fraudsters and criminals should be imprisoned, deported and banned from ever returning.
The next Presidential candidate must continuing to deport illegals, eliminate all foreign work visas.
Jobs for Americans or automate. No more imported labor to benefit corporations.
+1M anchor babies.
Don’t forget about Births in the U.S. to foreign-born mothers.
Recent data put the share of U.S. births to foreign-born mothers at roughly 22–24%. In 2024 there were ~3.63 million total U.S. births, implying on the order of ~870,000–900,000 births to foreign-born mothers that year.
How accurate do you think these statistics are? How do you even measure this stuff?