Critics are questioning recent government data showing a decline in the immigrant population across the first six months of the Trump administration, warning that the numbers may not reflect reality, as fear and uncertainty could be keeping immigrants from responding to surveys, potentially skewing official statistics.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) household survey, officially called the Current Population Survey (CPS), showed an unprecedented 2.2 million decline in the total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and undocumented) between January and July of this year, as USA Today reports.
