{"id":116037,"date":"2025-08-03T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116037\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:39:11","slug":"1-7-mn-immigrant-jobs-vanish-in-latest-us-data-indians-face-new-employment-risk-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116037\/","title":{"rendered":"1.7 mn immigrant jobs vanish in latest US data\u2014Indians face new employment risk – US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Latest US payroll data<\/a> has painted a worrying picture for foreign workers\u2014specifically for the Indian community living in America.<\/p>\n

According to a National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) analysis, foreign-born labour force has shrunk by\u00a0735,000 since January 2025. A broader dataset indicates an even deeper dent \u2013\u00a0about 1.7 million immigrant workers who held jobs at the start of the year are no longer on US payrolls.<\/p>\n

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The overall July jobs report underscores the slowdown in the US economy. Only\u00a073,000 positions were added last month, while revisions wiped out\u00a0258,000 jobs\u00a0previously reported for May and June. The headline unemployment rate inched up to\u00a04.2 per cent, but long-term joblessness\u2014people out of work for 27 weeks or more\u2014rose to\u00a01.83 million.<\/p>\n

US Job data highlights bias against immigrants<\/p>\n

Roughly\u00a01.2 million of those layoffs occurred between January and July, a period that coincides with Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s return to the White House<\/a>. Economists say the slide reflects more than tariffs<\/a> impacting businesses; they point squarely to the administration\u2019s tougher stance on immigration, aggressive ICE workplace raids and renewal hurdles for H-1B and other visas. It is catalysed by growing MAGA rhetoric against foreigners, claiming their jobs are being stolen by foreign aliens.<\/p>\n

The anti-immigrant rhetoric that helped Trump return to power is now reflecting in America\u2019s workforce reality. Native-born employment is still climbing, up\u00a01.99 million jobs between July 2024 and July 2025, yet immigrant employment fell\u00a01.4 per cent, or about 452,000 jobs, in the same span. <\/p>\n

However, academic research from the University of California, Davis finds immigration has lifted wages for less-educated native workers without harming college-educated Americans. In other words, fewer visas do not translate into more jobs for US-born workers; they translate into fewer jobs overall and a slower economy that costs everyone.<\/p>\n

Economist Mark Regets agrees, \u201cSo long as we have negative net immigration we will not be able to have much employment growth. The problem with low unemployment with no employment growth is that it becomes much harder to pay our debts or keep our promises (Social Security, veterans benefits).\u201d<\/p>\n

Impact of Labour Slowdown on Americans<\/p>\n

This job growth has significantly slowed in immigration-dependent industries. This includes construction and landscaping that mainly employ illegal residents. Recent workplace ICE raids have either detained or deported workers or kept many of them at home. <\/p>\n

Late-June ICE raids shunted an estimated 70 per cent of seasonal pickers at California\u2019s Central Valley, growers told Reuters. A Guardian report detailed how immigration crackdowns removed more than 125 experienced workers from a GE Appliances plant in Louisville and forced overtime at a Kraft-Heinz factory in Michigan. Some reports suggest 20 to 30 per cent increase in labour cost because full-time nurses are already \u201cworking extra shifts\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indian Americans are feeling the squeeze<\/p>\n

Routine H-1B<\/a> extensions are now getting harder as MAGA is vilifying them for taking away high-paying jobs. Even US vice president JD Vance<\/a> joined in the incorrect rhetoric by suggesting Microsoft<\/a> replaced the laid-off staff with outsourced foreign labour or new H1B hires. The DHS has made the renewal process more difficult by requiring time-consuming \u201crequests for evidence\u201d. Even EB-2 and EB-3 priority dates have slid further back, lengthening green-card waits already measured in decades. <\/p>\n

America\u2019s labour market is not yet in free fall, but it is unmistakably tilting against immigrants. Unless policy course-corrections arrive soon, the cost will be felt on both sides of the Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest US payroll data has painted a worrying picture for foreign workers\u2014specifically for the Indian community living in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72736,64,72739,72735,72734,420,72737,72741,31884,67,132,68,72051,72740,72738],"class_list":{"0":"post-116037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-1-7-million-workers","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-h-1b-jobs","11":"tag-immigrant-layoffs","12":"tag-indian-immigrants","13":"tag-jobs","14":"tag-native-hiring-surge","15":"tag-nfap-analysis","16":"tag-trump-immigration-policy","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-us-jobs-report","21":"tag-us-labor-market","22":"tag-visa-restrictions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114965824542720232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}