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Peter Navarro, the former senior trade and manufacturing advisor to President Donald Trump, revealed to Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow that a staggering majority of the new jobs created during the Biden administration were filled by recently arrived immigrants who crossed the United States-Mexico border.
During an exclusive interview with Marlow at the White House for The Alex Marlow Show podcast, Navarro explained the close relationship between mass immigration and free trade, where labor costs plummet, consequently dragging down American workers’ wages. “Both capital and labor are mobile, okay. Now think about that. So, depending on conditions, you’re in Britain, right, labor is mobile, and the next thing you know, you got the world coming in to your factories willing to undercut your wages by a significant amount,” Navarro stated. “And then soon, everybody in these blue-collar English towns are speaking Polish or Czechoslovakian and whatever.”
According to Navarro, under former President Joe Biden’s administration, approximately all new job growth benefited illegal aliens and legal immigrants, rather than American citizens. “Immigration is fine if it benefits a country, but [not] if it totally destroys a country,” Navarro remarked.
A testy exchange between Peter Navarro and a Sky News reporter over tariff policy. Navarro was annoyed with how closely the reporter was filming with his phone. pic.twitter.com/I2IwbsxsKu
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“I mean, interesting statistic here — and I was surprised that the Biden regime even published it — if you look at the net new job creation during the Biden administration, virtually all of the new jobs were taken by illegal [immigrants],” Navarro continued. “And virtually all the people who lost their jobs, because it was a net, net kind of thing, were American citizens. I mean, that is freaking insane … That’s the Ricardian free trade model.”
This trend observed by Navarro aligns with Breitbart News’ tracking of job figures throughout Biden’s term, confirming the exact pattern he described.
Last month, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) analyzed Bureau of Labor Statistics data and found that from January 2020, a year before illegal immigration reached record levels, through January 2025, 88 percent of U.S. job growth went to migrants — 60 percent of whom are illegal aliens. “Not all the data has been released, but our preliminary analysis suggests that the share of working-age (16 to 64) U.S.-born men not in the labor force — neither working nor looking for work — is likely 22.1 percent in January 2025 and remains near a historic high for an economic expansion,” CIS researcher Steven Camarota notes.
Peter Navarro: "Canada has been taken over by Mexican cartels."
Yes. And those cartels aren't just organized crime: they're terrorist organizations.
This is exactly why we're going to hit Canada with tariffs until they stop the flow of fentanyl across the border. pic.twitter.com/PDEbd8G3e7
— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) March 7, 2025
For years, the declining labor force participation among native-born Americans has led Democrats and many Republicans to claim that immigration levels should be increased to fill U.S. jobs rather than enticing jobless Americans back into the workforce.
As of April 2024, 43 million working-age native-born Americans aged 16 to 64 were not in the labor force — about 8.5 million more than in the year 2000, according to CIS researchers’ findings last year. More specifically, the share of working-age native-born American men not in the labor force has increased from 11 percent in April 1960 to 22 percent in April of this year. “If today’s labor force participation rate for these men matched the 1960s, there would be about 9 million more men in the workforce,” the researchers noted.
