This ratio was much worse for Obama during his first term: 1.7 million of the jobs added went to foreign born workers. The native born? They lost 537K jobs. In other words, 146% of the jobs went to foreigners.
Obama's second term was much better for native born workers: 70% of the jobs went to them. But it was too late. It was not enough to stem the anti-immigration sentiment that had been building up nationwide. When Trump had announced his candidacy on May 2015 on a vehemently anti-immigrant platform, the jobs growth was still definitely skewed to foreign born workers. They had gained almost 2 million jobs and the native born workers had just gained 237K jobs.
Trump has continued the trend, adding almost 8 million jobs in 29 months, with around 75% of the jobs going to native born workers. Nevertheless, the trend towards hiring foreign born workers continues unabated. The cumulative jobs added to foreign born workers as a percentage to their Civilian Noninstitutional Population was an astounding 10.50% as of June 2019. Native Born workers just gained 3.15% for the same period.
Source: www.bls.gov, https://fred.stlouisfed.org
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