Since the pandemic, immigrants have comprised of more than eighty percent of the growth in the US labor force. This influx of foreign-born workers has been helping to ease the worker shortages and inflationary pressures affecting the labor market. Increases in jobseekers has slowed wage growth gains recently, which the Fed claims is essential to lowering inflation and stopping the interest rate hikes. Some say that the large numbers of immigrants entering the US job market need to be reduced in order to grow the labor force; however, data shows that immigrants have been filling essential roles in struggling post-pandemic service industries like construction, retail, transportation, and restaurants.
See "Immigrants have been driving post-pandemic labor force growth in the US, filling essential roles in the service industries", Paul Davidson, USA Today, April 27, 2023