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Roughly 1.82 million voluntary and mandatory deportations are the figure Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put Tuesday behind his labor-market argument: immigration enforcement is tightening job availability for American workers and setting up real wage gains to return within the coming month.
Bessent, speaking on Fox News with host Jesse Watters, said "mass unfettered immigration has stopped" and that private-sector hiring is strengthening as a result.
The next data point to watch is the wage print Bessent said should confirm his forecast as soon as next month. Wage trend before and after April The secretary drew a clear before-and-after line at April.
Real wage gains for American workers arrived every month of Trump's term through March, he said, and Bessent told Watters he expects those gains to reassert themselves within a month.
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