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According to a new Pew Research report, the number of immigrants living in the United States declined for the first time since the 1960s.
In January of this year, when President Trump took office, the overall immigrant population in the United States was 53.3 million.
The number decreased to 51.9 million by June.
Trump Effect: U.S. immigrant population declines for first time in nearly 60 years, Pew finds https://t.co/KXSZsieoeY
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) August 24, 2025
“People are leaving, but what’s changed is how many people are coming to the United States. Changes in policy have made it harder, during the Biden years, but also Trump years, for immigrants to cross the border and seek asylum. So that flow has significantly dropped,” said Dr. Mark Hugo Lopez, director of race and ethnicity research at Pew Research Center, according to CBS News.
The Guardian has more:
Among all US residents, 15.4% were immigrants as of June 2025, down from the recent historic high of 15.8% in January.
The Pew survey also found that 750,000 immigrant workers had dropped out of the US labor force since January, which is now 19% foreign-born.
The center pointed to several policy changes that have affected immigrant populations across the US, including Joe Biden’s restrictions on asylum applications in 2024, which led to a significant decrease in border crossings involving immigrants seeking asylum.
Additionally, the center pointed to Donald Trump’s 181 executive actions targeting immigration, including the arrival of new immigrants and the mass deportation of noncitizen immigrants.
The center noted that the change in the data could be due to a declining survey response rate among immigrants.
Mexico remains the largest origin country among US immigrants. As of mid-2023, more than 11 million US residents were born in Mexico, marking nearly a quarter, or 22%, of all immigrants nationally. Nevertheless, immigration from Mexico has declined since 2007 and the Mexican-born population in the US has dropped. From 2010 to 2023, the Mexican share of the US immigrant population dropped from 29% to 22%, according to Pew’s research.
During the Biden administration, the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States significantly increased.
“Though Mexico remains the country where the most unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. are from, it accounted for 30% of the nation’s unauthorized immigrants living here in 2023,” the report read.
“Mexicans represented a majority of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. through 2016; their share in 2023 was by far the smallest share on record,” it added.
After Mexico, the countries with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations in the United States included:
- Guatemala (850,000)
- El Salvador (850,000)
- Honduras (775,000)
- India (680,000)
US immigrant population drops for the first time in 50 years — as Trump seals the border and pushes mass deportations https://t.co/AKwj4wHPmt pic.twitter.com/f60OiFGXuy
— New York Post (@nypost) August 21, 2025
CBS News provided further info:
In the two-year period between 2021 and 2023, the unauthorized immigrant population increased by 3.5 million. In 2023, 2.1 million unauthorized immigrants lived in Texas — the second-highest number of any state.
The “unauthorized immigrant” label refers to those in this country without permanent status or active visas.
According to researchers, this post-pandemic growth was driven primarily by the rise of unauthorized immigrants with some deportation protections. This population includes those paroled into the country under the Biden administration and asylum-seekers.
While data is still being collected for 2024 and 2025, Pew Research preliminary data shows that changes in federal policy in mid-2024 have slowed that growth. In his last several months in office, the Biden administration stopped accepting asylum applications at the southern border and paused parole programs. And since President Donald Trump took office in January, he has increased immigration enforcement, leading to more deportations and self-deportations.
Read the full report HERE.