Holy. Shit. I thought this was a typo… In the last 4 months, native-born Americans have gained 1.8 MILLION jobs. Meanwhile, 1.5 Million foreign-born workers (legal and illegal) lost a job. A sharp reversal of the last few years.

I specifically note “legal + illegal” immigrants because the Government does not seperate the two groups in their data for foreign-born workers. However, based on the numbers, a large percentage are certainly illegal immigrants.

Data from BLS:

@JamesSurowiecki No. The graph shows the employment level indexed to 2007, to show a different perspective of the data I mentioned. It is very clearly not the actual number of workers. You are simply illiterate.