September 8, 2025 • 9 mins
There are 1.1 million fewer ‘foreign born’ workers in the U.S. work force since the start of the Trump administration. American employment has risen by 2 million jobs this year – a total that’s 250,000 jobs monthly! This is the real storyline that needs to be told...
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Brian Mount Show, and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable,
Happy Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Joel's really steering at me today. He is never a
happy Monday guy, but especially in wake of I'm fine,
you sound fine, I'm fine.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Dolphins score does not affect my life in any way.
You taught me that years ago. Sometimes I remember it.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Joel is in recovery this morning. Hopefully you're doing it
a little bit better. But I mean, look, Alasi's recovering.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I made in America jobs three point zero and taming inflation.
My takeaways for today. My top one is made in
America jobs three point zero. You know, Friday's jobs report
covered one way, and it was pretty much this way.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Hiring slump. Last month. Just twenty two thousand new jobs
were created in August, the unemployment rate rose to four
point three percent, the highest rates since October of twenty
twenty one. June in July's job creation together have been
revised lower by twenty one thousand.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Goddon.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Everything was just under dotin bad, bad, bad bit. Okay,
Friday's jobs report was great. It was it wasn't decent,
it wasn't good. It was great. It was great. What
are you talking about dating? Everybody was doing that. Huh
huh uh.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
There's so many more storylines behind the headlines than ever
get told with these jobs reports. But that has especially
been true in recent months because I've been checking on
and reporting on a phenomenon that continues to underpin the
job's report. It's painting what's a picture of what's really
(02:03):
going on in the US job market, overall US economy,
but actually immigration policy too. So the headline numbers from
Friday's jobs report, once again, you know, they don't look good.
I mean, unemployment rate higher four point three, the poultry
job growth twenty two thousand jobs, so when you factor
in revisions, looks like only one thousand net new jobs
(02:25):
were added. Okay, Well, the real storyline, the one that
I've been tracking for months, showed up yet again, and
that is the extraordinary dichotomy and foreign born jobs lost
in comparison to American jobs added. There is so much
more to the story and the reason why we're seeing
(02:46):
job losses potentially a great thing for the average American employee.
What is that thing? There are one point one million
viewer foreign born workers in the US workforce since the
start of the Trump administration this year, one point one
million fewer foreign born workers. By the way, that number
(03:07):
peaked at one and a half million in March, so
it's actually to kind of one and a half million
since March specifically, but nevertheless, Okay, so what is the
overall job growth that we've seen this year. Well, through
the first eight months of the year, we've seen an
addition of eight hundred and ninety six thousand new jobs. Okay,
So what does this actually mean in context? Well, what
(03:28):
it means is that the American employment pictures has actually
risen by two million jobs this year. Two million American
jobs added. That's a total that is two hundred and
fifty thousand jobs monthly. That I mean, that is the
(03:53):
real storyline that needs to be told. That's a huge number.
It's a great number. And so that leads me to
my second takeaway today, which is more good news. But
first a word from Kevin Hasset, the National Economic Council Director.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
We expect this number will be revised up.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That sped the pattern over and over, and if that happens,
then it'll be consistent with all the other indicators, we're
seeing industrial production as an all time high. Capital spending
is up eight percent over the first half of the year. Yeah,
there's actually a lot of really good news here, a
lot of really good news here. That is, if you
believe that Americans rather than illegal aliens should be getting
job opportunities, which, by the way, and was talking to
(04:35):
Joel about this just a bit ago. So you had
this big illegal alien bust at a Hyundai factory in Georgia,
four hundred and seventy five the illegal aliens working at
this Georgia Hundai factory, which is fun anyway, just as
an aside, because you have some of these companies will advertising, yeah,
(04:55):
we're making our cars in the USA with illegal aliens.
You can't make that up. You can't make that up.
So unless they're going to shut down that plan, since
you've had five hundred warm and fluffies that were escorted
out of it, who's going to get those jobs? There's
going to be American jobs, right. This is an example
(05:17):
of what's happened consistently throughout the course of this year.
Not only has American employment exploded this year unsurprisingly, as
illegal aliens are rapidly exiting the workforce with Americans getting
job opportunities, but wages continued to rise meaningfully too. The
average hourly wage reached a new record high of thirty
(05:38):
six dollars and fifty three cents per hour last month,
and it's three point seven percent higher than a year ago.
So what does that mean? Well, with an inflation rate
that pays two point seven percent over the same time,
average American is continuing to make financial progress one percent
more net to show for what you're doing now compared
to a year ago. What this data also suggests is
(06:00):
that it's likely self deportation numbers continue to be huge.
You know, when it comes to deportations, we know about
the Hyundai factory people, but we don't know what we
don't know generally, which means that the only self deportations
were aware of are those that have taken place through
the CBP one home app where you actually have arrangements
that are made to self deport. When you dig deeply
(06:23):
into the data, they yet again far more than meets
the eye. That shows that likely we have had well
over a million. Somewhere between one to two million Americans
who have self deported are not American, but illegal aliens
that have self deported this year. But there's some Americans
I could self deport too, you know, the people that
have threatened too many times. If Bush is elected, if
(06:45):
if Trump is elected, if Trump is elected again, those
people should finally self deport.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Rosie o'donnald did it. She's self deported in Ireland. Yeah,
I mean she's been on social media like daily. But yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So anyway, as you continue to see all this take place,
you are going to see labor force participation rates rise
once again because Americans who had been knocked out of
the workforce by those here illegally, we'll see the opportunity
to work again. And what this also is likely to
mean faster and higher wage increases as well, so there
won't be as much pricing pressure on wages to keep
(07:23):
them low for legal aliens. So there is a lot here,
a lot that tells the story about immigration as much
as it does the labor market. Another huge underlying storyline
in all of this is the impact on inflation. First
a word from Treasury Secretary Scott Descent. We believe that
good policies are in place that are going to create good,
(07:46):
high paying jobs for the American people. Yeah, so this
week we'll get two huge inflation numbers, the Consumer and
Producer Price Index reports showing the most recent inflation rates,
and they're uber important as far as interest rates concerned.
As of today, a one hundred percent probability of interest
rates being cut in this month's meeting has been priced
(08:08):
into the market, along with an eighty percent chance of
an additional cut in October. So that's encouraging news for
people that are hoping for the cost of living to
come down. But in advance of these reports, it's possible
that yet again we could see inflation potentially tamered and
expected in part due to the impact of outbound immigration,
(08:31):
as they illustrated in an analysis in February, for every
five percent in Greece and immigrant population, the increase in
housing costs for Americans was twelve percent. So the unwinding
of that impact has will continue to have an effect
on the biggest expense for people, which, when combined with
lower interest rates in the months ahead, should meaningfully impact affordabuilding.
(08:53):
Illegal immigration it was a huge part of the Biden
inflation story. It's been a key reason why inflation hasn't
risen to date the way the Fed I thought it would.
Due to President Trump's higher terror frights and well, economic
data become a lot more interesting even for me than
it used to be, and that's because it's the best
insight that we have, not just into the economy but
(09:15):
Trump's immigration policy.
Welcome to the Brian Mount Show, and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable,
Happy Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Joel's really steering at me today. He is never a
happy Monday guy, but especially in wake of I'm fine,
you sound fine, I'm fine.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Dolphins score does not affect my life in any way.
You taught me that years ago. Sometimes I remember it.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Joel is in recovery this morning. Hopefully you're doing it
a little bit better. But I mean, look, Alasi's recovering.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I made in America jobs three point zero and taming inflation.
My takeaways for today. My top one is made in
America jobs three point zero. You know, Friday's jobs report
covered one way, and it was pretty much this way.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Hiring slump. Last month. Just twenty two thousand new jobs
were created in August, the unemployment rate rose to four
point three percent, the highest rates since October of twenty
twenty one. June in July's job creation together have been
revised lower by twenty one thousand.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Goddon.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Everything was just under dotin bad, bad, bad bit. Okay,
Friday's jobs report was great. It was it wasn't decent,
it wasn't good. It was great. It was great. What
are you talking about dating? Everybody was doing that. Huh
huh uh.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
There's so many more storylines behind the headlines than ever
get told with these jobs reports. But that has especially
been true in recent months because I've been checking on
and reporting on a phenomenon that continues to underpin the
job's report. It's painting what's a picture of what's really
(02:03):
going on in the US job market, overall US economy,
but actually immigration policy too. So the headline numbers from
Friday's jobs report, once again, you know, they don't look good.
I mean, unemployment rate higher four point three, the poultry
job growth twenty two thousand jobs, so when you factor
in revisions, looks like only one thousand net new jobs
(02:25):
were added. Okay, Well, the real storyline, the one that
I've been tracking for months, showed up yet again, and
that is the extraordinary dichotomy and foreign born jobs lost
in comparison to American jobs added. There is so much
more to the story and the reason why we're seeing
(02:46):
job losses potentially a great thing for the average American employee.
What is that thing? There are one point one million
viewer foreign born workers in the US workforce since the
start of the Trump administration this year, one point one
million fewer foreign born workers. By the way, that number
(03:07):
peaked at one and a half million in March, so
it's actually to kind of one and a half million
since March specifically, but nevertheless, Okay, so what is the
overall job growth that we've seen this year. Well, through
the first eight months of the year, we've seen an
addition of eight hundred and ninety six thousand new jobs. Okay,
So what does this actually mean in context? Well, what
(03:28):
it means is that the American employment pictures has actually
risen by two million jobs this year. Two million American
jobs added. That's a total that is two hundred and
fifty thousand jobs monthly. That I mean, that is the
(03:53):
real storyline that needs to be told. That's a huge number.
It's a great number. And so that leads me to
my second takeaway today, which is more good news. But
first a word from Kevin Hasset, the National Economic Council Director.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
We expect this number will be revised up.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That sped the pattern over and over, and if that happens,
then it'll be consistent with all the other indicators, we're
seeing industrial production as an all time high. Capital spending
is up eight percent over the first half of the year. Yeah,
there's actually a lot of really good news here, a
lot of really good news here. That is, if you
believe that Americans rather than illegal aliens should be getting
job opportunities, which, by the way, and was talking to
(04:35):
Joel about this just a bit ago. So you had
this big illegal alien bust at a Hyundai factory in Georgia,
four hundred and seventy five the illegal aliens working at
this Georgia Hundai factory, which is fun anyway, just as
an aside, because you have some of these companies will advertising, yeah,
(04:55):
we're making our cars in the USA with illegal aliens.
You can't make that up. You can't make that up.
So unless they're going to shut down that plan, since
you've had five hundred warm and fluffies that were escorted
out of it, who's going to get those jobs? There's
going to be American jobs, right. This is an example
(05:17):
of what's happened consistently throughout the course of this year.
Not only has American employment exploded this year unsurprisingly, as
illegal aliens are rapidly exiting the workforce with Americans getting
job opportunities, but wages continued to rise meaningfully too. The
average hourly wage reached a new record high of thirty
(05:38):
six dollars and fifty three cents per hour last month,
and it's three point seven percent higher than a year ago.
So what does that mean? Well, with an inflation rate
that pays two point seven percent over the same time,
average American is continuing to make financial progress one percent
more net to show for what you're doing now compared
to a year ago. What this data also suggests is
(06:00):
that it's likely self deportation numbers continue to be huge.
You know, when it comes to deportations, we know about
the Hyundai factory people, but we don't know what we
don't know generally, which means that the only self deportations
were aware of are those that have taken place through
the CBP one home app where you actually have arrangements
that are made to self deport. When you dig deeply
(06:23):
into the data, they yet again far more than meets
the eye. That shows that likely we have had well
over a million. Somewhere between one to two million Americans
who have self deported are not American, but illegal aliens
that have self deported this year. But there's some Americans
I could self deport too, you know, the people that
have threatened too many times. If Bush is elected, if
(06:45):
if Trump is elected, if Trump is elected again, those
people should finally self deport.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Rosie o'donnald did it. She's self deported in Ireland. Yeah,
I mean she's been on social media like daily. But yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So anyway, as you continue to see all this take place,
you are going to see labor force participation rates rise
once again because Americans who had been knocked out of
the workforce by those here illegally, we'll see the opportunity
to work again. And what this also is likely to
mean faster and higher wage increases as well, so there
won't be as much pricing pressure on wages to keep
(07:23):
them low for legal aliens. So there is a lot here,
a lot that tells the story about immigration as much
as it does the labor market. Another huge underlying storyline
in all of this is the impact on inflation. First
a word from Treasury Secretary Scott Descent. We believe that
good policies are in place that are going to create good,
(07:46):
high paying jobs for the American people. Yeah, so this
week we'll get two huge inflation numbers, the Consumer and
Producer Price Index reports showing the most recent inflation rates,
and they're uber important as far as interest rates concerned.
As of today, a one hundred percent probability of interest
rates being cut in this month's meeting has been priced
(08:08):
into the market, along with an eighty percent chance of
an additional cut in October. So that's encouraging news for
people that are hoping for the cost of living to
come down. But in advance of these reports, it's possible
that yet again we could see inflation potentially tamered and
expected in part due to the impact of outbound immigration,
(08:31):
as they illustrated in an analysis in February, for every
five percent in Greece and immigrant population, the increase in
housing costs for Americans was twelve percent. So the unwinding
of that impact has will continue to have an effect
on the biggest expense for people, which, when combined with
lower interest rates in the months ahead, should meaningfully impact affordabuilding.
(08:53):
Illegal immigration it was a huge part of the Biden
inflation story. It's been a key reason why inflation hasn't
risen to date the way the Fed I thought it would.
Due to President Trump's higher terror frights and well, economic
data become a lot more interesting even for me than
it used to be, and that's because it's the best
insight that we have, not just into the economy but
(09:15):
Trump's immigration policy.
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