 The United States gained an estimated 2.5 million new immigrants last year, Wilson said. There is no evidence newcomers took away jobs from U.S.-born workers, and the unemployment rate for U.S.-born workers averaged 3.6%. Unless Trump thinks that a lot of those folks, they want to be out there. They want to be migrant workers. They want to be picking lettuce. That's what they want to do. They want to be scrubbing toilets.