The total migrant population in the United States barely grew in 2025 amid President Donald Trump’s low-migration/high-productivity economic policy, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
\n\nThe survey “shows a total foreign-born (also called immigrant) [legalized and illegal] population of 50.4 million — up slightly from the 50.2 million in the 2024 [survey],” alongside 290 million U.S.-born Americans, says an October 30 report from the Center for Immigration Studies.
\n\nWithout Trump’s policies, the migrant population would have jumped by 2.4 million in 2025, CIS reported.
\n\nThe overall migrant population saw “an increase of just 174,000 from mid-2024 to mid-2025, compared to growth of 2.4 million from 2023 to 2024,” says the report. Interim data from 2026 shows a further drop in the number of resident migrants of about 790,000 from March 2025 to March 2026.
\n\nThe 2025 and 2026 declines are a huge reversal from the federal government’s pro-migration policies since 1965 and 1990 — and from President Joe Biden’s recent welcome of at least 8 million migrants.
\n\nFor decades, the federal government has boosted the nation’s economy by importing consumers, workers, and renters from poor countries. The huge annual inflow has included many illegal migrants, roughly 1 million…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/
