There are 3,553,000 more foreign-born workers employed today than when President Obama took office in January 2009, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
There are currently close to 25 million foreign-born workers employed in the United States, and this number increased by 14,000 in September. In January 2009, when the president took office, there were only 21,928,000 foreign-born workers employed.
The BLS does not distinguish between legal immigrants who are permitted to work here and illegal aliens in this data set.
While the number of employed foreign-born workers is increasing, the number of native-born workers has declined. For the past three months, since July, the number of employed native-born workers has declined every month. Since August, employed native-born workers have declined by 262,000.
The unemployment rate for foreign-born workers at 4.6 percent is lower than the unemployment rate for native-born workers at 4.9 percent.