U.S. companies lay off a million workers; government brings in a million more

The number of workers laid off in 2025 is now equal to the number of permanent foreign workers the U.S. government is expected to admit in this year.

• So far, U.S. employers have announced 1.1 million layoffs, citing cost-cutting and artificial intelligence as the primary motivations to reducing staff. The cuts have hit both white-collar and blue-collar industries – from information technology to retail.
  
• Unless Congress changes the law, immigration will add roughly 1.1 million new permanent foreign workers to compete with laid off Americans.

Mass immigration – a decades-long broken promise that Congress refuses to fix – has reliably brought in over a million foreign workers a year since 2001. The only exceptions were in 2020 & 2021 during the pandemic, and in 2013 when the Obama Administration prioritized DACA applications over legal immigrants. Even in those three years, the U.S. government still issued over 700,000 green cards.

Meanwhile, newly laid-off Americans face the weakest hiring outlook since 2011, as companies announce fewer new positions and pull back on expansion plans.

There seems to be no conditions under which Congress will reconsider the wisdom of mass immigration.

Leading the fight to end mass immigration

As of this writing, there are a mere 21 (out of 535) Members of Congress who are signed on to legislation to end mass legal immigration. They are the notable exceptions to the rule.