The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has a message for disaffected citizens who have watched legal and illegal workers replace Americans: Get used to it!

Since 2021, the onset of President Joe Biden’s administration, 9.3 million people have entered the United States, more than three times the net number who arrived in the country during the previous decade.

Using cautious, politically correct prose, the CBO identified the biggest net increase of 6.5 million as “other foreign nationals,” which includes “people who entered the U.S. undetected, as well those who were paroled into the country and are awaiting proceedings in immigration court.”

In plain language, the arrivals are low-skilled, under-educated, non-English-speaking illegal aliens.

The largest sending countries are Venezuela, an avowed enemy of the United States, at 14%; Mexico at 13%; and Honduras at 8.5%.

In addition, the CBO estimates that the nonimmigrant population, which includes employment-based visa holders, has increased by about 230,000 since 2020.

Among the 6.5 million illegal aliens, the CBO concluded that “most of them work.”

Another category that must be considered are the 2 million gotaways that the House Homeland Security Committee estimates have slipped undetected into the United States and may be working in the $3 trillion underground economy.

The arriving illegal immigrants, the CBO noted, “are younger (about 78%) and more likely to be of working age …”

Among the recently arrived illegal immigrants aged 16 or older, 68% are either employed or looking for employment, a total of about 5 million individuals.

CBO analysts determined that, based on U.S. Census data, illegal immigrants who arrived since 2020 are more than twice as likely than U.S. workers to have dropped out or never attended high school.

Those without high-school diplomas earn less than their American-born contemporaries; their willingness to work for a lower income is attractive to unscrupulous employers. Cheap labor is always in vogue.

Their occupations are concentrated in jobs that Americans, especially under-employed Americans, can and would do, including construction, carpentry, landscaping, drivers, housekeepers and janitors.

Their low education achievement prevents them entering the skilled labor field.

The August Bureau of Labor Statistics establishment survey showed that the economy created a tepid 142,000 jobs.

But the big story is August’s BLS Household Survey that collects comprehensive employment data, including demographic facts.

The CBO suggested that the illegal alien population might be larger than the August BLS Household Survey indicated.

First, unlawfully present residents may be hesitant to share personal information with the Census Bureau representative who, on behalf of BLS, interviews them.

And second, the report does not count the number of newly arrived Biden-Harris open-border illegal immigrants who are employed.

The dramatic increase in the immigrant population includes 2.6 million lawful permanent residents who receive employment authorization.

Recent Household Surveys have reflected a growing gap between native-born and foreign-born employment.

In August, the number of U.S. born employees fell by 1.3 million and the number of foreign born employees increased by 635,000.

Over the past 12 months, native-born employment has contracted to 129.7 million from 131 million, a loss of 1.3 million natives from payrolls.

The number of foreign-born employees has grown to 31.6 million from 30.4 million, a gain of 1.2 million.

Since October 2019, native-born U.S. workers have lost 1.4 million jobs; over the same period, foreign-born workers have gained 3 million.

An estimate of the illegal alien population published in June 2023 put the total at a record high 16.8 million.

That highest-ever total is significantly greater than the January 2022 illegal alien population estimate of 15.5 million, and the 2024 count, when it is released will be higher still.

The unprecedented surge in legal and illegal immigrants, which the CBO report identified, has changed the U.S. labor force in ways that are likely to reverberate throughout the economy for decades.

Given the trend that started in 2019 and continues today, Americans’ unemployment crisis will do more than “reverberate.”

The demographic shift will create an earthquake of more unlawfully present workers who take citizens’ jobs.

The great displacement is no longer theory but established, cold fact as published government statistics confirm.