US-born workers see job gains as foreign-born employment declines, Labor Department data shows

The Labor Department's August jobs report showed that the number of immigrant workers declined over the last year while job growth among U.S.-born workers accelerated.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data for August showed that over the last year the number of employed foreign-born workers – a metric that doesn't differentiate between legal and illegal immigrants, according to the BLS – has declined by 822,000 since last August.

In that period, the number of employed U.S.-born workers has increased by 2.76 million.

The unemployment rates for both groups of workers have changed little in the last year. Among foreign-born workers, the unemployment rate was 4.4%, up slightly from 4.3% a year ago – while the unemployment rate for U.S.-born workers also ticked higher to 4.6% f