By Evaristo Lara
The ICE operations ordered by President Donald Trump negatively affected job opportunities for Mexican immigrants in the United States, at least in the first three months of the year.
According to data collected by the United States Census Bureau through the Modern Population Compare (CPS), a monthly survey implemented in households, since the fourth quarter of 2024, Job opportunities for immigrants of Mexican origin have been decreasing.
The figures reveal that, until the end of March of this year, the employment of Mexican immigrant workers in the United States measured with seasonally adjusted data was 6,820,779 people.
Of this amount, 4,176,546 were male workers and 2,644,233 were female workers.
In a comparison with the first half of 2025, The employment figure was depraved at 664,589 jobs occupied by Mexican immigrants.
In a segmented manner, in the months of January, February and March, the construction sector was characterized as the largest employer of these foreigners with 1,450,943 jobs.
Further back were the food, recreation and lodging sectors; manufacturing and professional and administrative services, with a combined 3,827,188 jobs destined for Mexican immigrants.
During the first quarter of this year, The sector that suffered the most from a decline in jobs aimed at these people was construction with 300,986 fewer offers.
Next are professional and administrative services with a decrease of 229,573 jobs, manufacturing with a drop of 89,060 and the agricultural sector with 65,402 fewer jobs.
With respect to the annual accumulated wage bill or labor income obtained by Mexican immigrants, during the first quarter of this year it was also lower than the same period analyzed a year ago.
In global terms, it is indicated that Mexican immigrants received $368,646 million dollars, that is, $14,870 million dollars less.
Another piece of information obtained by the CPS that draws attention is that, at the end of the first quarter, there was also an annual decrease in the Mexican immigrant population of working age close to one million people, which would imply their voluntary and involuntary return to their nation of origin.
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