Vice President JD Vance said on Monday that local, state and federal level politicians should be “honest” about the role of a large -scale immigration in increasing the cost of housing for Americans.
In addition to inflation, zoning laws and energy costs, Vance said that importing millions of migrants around the world has played an important role in working homes and making even more ineffective for middle class Americans.
Vance told the audience of local authorities at the National League of Cities Congress conference, “One of the drivers demanding increased housing, we know that in the last four years we have met a lot of people who have come to the country illegally, and if we want to reduce the cost of housing, we have to work,” we have to work, “told the audience of local authorities at the National League of Cities Congress conference.
Vance said:
If you allow 20 million people to compete with American citizens for the cost of homes,And this is what we have seen, of course. Because when we had made it a little difficult to build houses in this country in the last four years, we have unfortunately made it very easy for people to compete against American citizens for those precious houses that are to start in our country. [Emphasis added]
Now, I would say, this is not really just an American problem. If you go to Canada, where, due to their laws and rules, they have seen a huge increase in the number of people coming to their country; You go to the United Kingdom; You go around the world, and you see a very consistent relationship between a huge increase in immigration and a huge increase in housing prices, and we have to be honest about it.
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In fact, the cost of housing was out of control for Canadian people last year, which resulted in large -scale immigration that Justin Trudeau of Canada announced that he would cut the immigration level to reduce such burden on his people.
At one point, a woman in the audience shouted at the Vance as he was speaking, to which he replied, “I see that one of our good representatives is out of here, in fact, I think, continue flooding the country with illegal immigrants, making your communities and more citizens ineffective.”
Vance said that it often occurs to those who earn the lowest income that is destroyed by uncontrolled levels of immigration in the United States.
“We know from economists that blue-collar people are often those who face the greatest cuts in wages and services when you have communities over illegal immigration,” Vance said.
Research by the Center for Immigration Studies has shown that a 5 percent growth in the immigrant portion of the metro sector is an increase of a average of 12 percent of the average US fare.
“I think one thing that unites us in this room is that we want to give our blue-collar people a shot again in the American dream in the United States,” Vance said.
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