MAGA patriots cheer this news as a groundbreaking study revealed that approximately 1 million illegal aliens have left the United States since January 2025.
The dramatic decrease in the illegal population, documented by the Center for Immigration Studies, represents one of the largest declines in illegal immigration in decades.
American workers are already seeing the benefits as wages begin to rise across the country.
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released data showing the illegal alien population fell from 15.8 million in January to 14.8 million by May 2025.
Based on analysis of Census Bureau monthly surveys, this remarkable decline occurred in just the first four months of Trump’s return to office.
Researchers noted that this signals one of the largest decreases in illegal immigration over a four-month period in the past three decades.
Steven Camarota, lead author of the CIS study, directly attributed the decrease to presidential policies.
“It looks like there’s been a Trump effect on the number of illegal immigrants in the country, based on the best data that we have,” said Camarota.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics simultaneously reported a reduction of 601,000 foreign-born individuals from the U.S. labor force during the same January-May timeframe.
This data strongly supports the CIS findings and demonstrates that Trump’s immigration enforcement measures are delivering results far faster than many expected.
The decline appears connected to both direct deportation efforts and the administration’s strategy of encouraging “self-deportation.”
In addition, the administration has significantly intensified deportation operations, targeting large cities with “sanctuary” policies that previously shielded illegal aliens from federal enforcement.
Deportation operations have resumed at farms, hotels, and other businesses known to employ undocumented workers.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has also ramped up efforts to encourage voluntary departures.
Equally important, border security has been dramatically strengthened, preventing new illegal crossings that would otherwise replace those leaving.
This two-pronged approach has effectively reversed the border surge that occurred under the previous administration, when the illegal population ballooned from an estimated 10.2 million at the start of 2021 to 15.8 million by January 2025.
Likewise, the study pointed out that the decline is specifically among non-citizens who arrived after 1980, a demographic group that overlaps significantly with illegal aliens.
Significantly, the number of naturalized U.S. citizens did not decrease during this period, confirming that the reduction affects explicitly those in the country illegally rather than legal immigrants.
This dramatic reduction could lead to significant economic benefits for American workers competing with illegal labor.
With fewer illegal workers in the labor pool, employers are already being forced to raise wages to attract Americans into jobs previously filled by undocumented workers.
If the trend continues, economists predict this could help address the workforce participation crisis among working-age American men without college degrees.
