President Donald Trump has driven out roughly one million illegal immigrants from the United States since January, according to a new study.
The jump in removals has been credited to Trump's tough enforcement and some aliens deciding to self-deport, the New York Post reported.
Under the Biden administration, the foreign-born population exploded to all-time highs as the federal government rolled out the red carpet for border crossers. But after a few months of Trump, things are moving the other way.
A report from the Center for Immigration Studies found a sharp falloff in the number of non-citizens from Latin America who arrived in 1980 or later, a population that "overlaps significantly with illegal immigrants."
Since January, the illegal population has dropped nearly one million, from 15.4 million in that month to 14.8 million in May.
The projection was based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' annual household survey, the Current Population Survey.
Of course, tracking the illegal population is far from an exact science. The Center for Immigration Studies noted some caveats, including the possibility that some illegal aliens are not responding to the survey out of fear.
Still, this is not the only study to find a drop in the foreign-born population. A forthcoming paper from the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute predicts a net loss in the immigrant population for the first time in 50 years, crediting the change to Trump's maximalist immigration policies.
It's a stark reversal after the foreign share of the labor force hit a record 19% under Biden's open border regime.
The Center for Immigration Studies estimated the number of foreign workers has already dropped 601,000 since January.
"A large decline in the number of illegal immigrants could be very helpful to less-educated U.S.-born and legal-immigrant workers, whose wages may rise as a result," the study concluded. "Further, a tighter labor market and higher wages may help to draw back into jobs the near-record number of working-age American men without a college degree not in the labor force."
Border Patrol agents did not release a single illegal alien into the nation's interior in May, a stunning reversal after 62,000 crossed last May under Biden.
The Trump administration has also been ramping up ICE enforcement to meet Trump's ambitious mass deportation goals, with officials reaching for 3,000 arrests per day.
The administration is also dangling $1,000 incentives to "self-deport," with flights paid for by the government.
