U.S. Immigrant Numbers Fall for First Time in Decades Amid Trump Enforcement
By Caroline Boda | Just the News
(The Center Square) - The foreign-born population in the United States shrunk this year for the first time since the 1960s, according to new data from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.
After rapidly growing for more than 50 years, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. reached a record high of 53.3 million in January 2025. The following months showed a decline of nearly 1.5 million, a likely mark of President Donald Trump’s second-term immigration policies.
The new Pew study shows that more people are leaving the U.S. than are entering it, the first time this has happened in more than half a century.
The analysis also found that the number of noncitizens in the U.S. illegally reached a record high of 14 million in 2023, a trend which Tru...










