Former President Donald Trump said President Joe Biden’s administration has seen a record influx of illegal immigrants into the United States, causing rent and housing costs to skyrocket for Americans.
In a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday evening, Trump focused on the Biden administration’s plans to turn the U.S.-Mexico border into European-style checkpoints, allowing tens of thousands of migrants to cross the border every few weeks, be detained briefly and then released into Mexico.
“In total, Bad Joe has imported more illegal immigrants than the population of 40 of the 50 states,” Trump said. “This is unsustainable.”
As a result, Trump said, working- and middle-class Americans are having to compete with growing numbers of foreign-born residents for limited apartments and affordable housing, sending rents and housing costs soaring.
“Housing costs are skyrocketing because we have 15 million new immigrants. They’re really skyrocketing. There’s no place to put them. There’s no place to put them. Their numbers are growing and there’s no place to put them at all,” Trump said.
If Joe Biden wins this election, he wants to turn all of the illegal immigrants he allows across the border into citizens with the right to vote. In contrast, I want to send Joe Biden’s illegal immigrants back to their home countries where they belong… Biden wants an invasion, I want deportation. [Emphasis added]
In fact, despite high interest rates, home prices remain out of reach for most Americans.
Latest data from Realtor.com reveal Home prices have risen more than 52% in the past five years. In New York City, where hundreds of thousands of immigrants have moved under Biden, home prices per square foot have risen nearly 85% since 2019.
JP Morgan investigation Published The presidential election in March directly linked mass immigration under Biden to a tight housing market where limited supply and growing demand are driving up home prices.
“Immigration will add 3.3 million people to the U.S. population in 2023 and 2024,” Business Insider reports. “… [JPMorgan] They point out that the wave of immigration is also putting strain on housing supply.”
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), who is reportedly the leading contender for President Trump’s running mate, has been at the forefront of talking about the impact mass immigration would have on American home prices.
Last year, Vance testified at a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing that such record immigration levels are putting “incredible pressure” on the nation’s housing market.
“There are fewer homes available, but more buyers, which puts incredible pressure on homebuyers and people who just want to live the good life,” Vance said.
I strongly believe We should think of the immigration issue and the immigration crisis as an economic issue. As much as it is about culture and law and order. [Emphasis added]
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Trump and Vance’s argument that increased immigration causes housing prices to rise has been widely accepted by the mainstream media.
New York MagazineFor example, last year we reported that mass immigration had a “negative effect on home prices,” while Axios reported that such levels of immigration under the Biden administration had “deteriorated” the U.S. housing market.
A 2013 study by the New American Economy, a group funded by Michael Bloomberg that promotes mass immigration, found that: explanation The importation of tens of millions of immigrants over several decades helped raise housing costs for the next generation of homebuyers by $3.7 trillion, but they exaggerated that figure as the creation of “housing wealth.”
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter. here.
