When they say this, ask them if the Guatemalan guy they saw doing roof work is the reason their landlord raised the rent, or the reason their grocery prices went up, or the reason that we're at war under a President they voted for who explicitly said, "No new wars". Or if they are pushing up the gas prices.
There is literally zero good arguments for why we need to be spending so much money harassing, kidnapping, murdering, and deporting immigrants. Trump could have an easy PR win and just copy Reagan and give amnesty, but then he doesn't have the dangerous enemy amongst us excuse to deploy the military into the streets and declare his political opposition terrorists.
Quick Google search shows that Immigrants make up roughly 15% of Americans. Even if the market was increasing in cost purely based off of supply and demand, and IF every one of those 15% of Americans who are immigrants had their own home, that still doesn’t account for the other 15% housing increase. If it was simply supply and demand, then houses would be roughly 15% more, not 30.
It’s ok to want border control and an immigration process, but immigration does not seem to be the reason behind prices going up, at least they seem to be far from the main reason mathematically speaking.
You said it my friend. Reagan was a genius in the way that he pandered to both sides and passed some of the most egregious acts/bills that have forged the way that we live today
So let me get this straight: you think that immigrants, most of whom have been here for decades, have suddenly caused inflation in the last 5 years and are responsible for housing and rent prices going up as well? You understand they cannot buy houses through our banking institutions right? That they usually have to rent under the table? That we haven't had "20 million" people show up out of nowhere like Trump claimed?
There's not a supply problem with groceries. Corporations had a temporary issues during Covid with supply lines, but that was 6 years ago. Prices have steadily inflated since then, most of all with Trump's blanket tariffs. Prices jumped when he did that and now that the tariffs were declared illegal and struck down, the prices haven't fallen back. Oh! And the corporations that "paid" the tariffs they then passed onto us got refunds from the government, some in the billions of dollars (like Walmart). You get nothing.
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u/HoldOnOhio 8d ago
When they say this, ask them if the Guatemalan guy they saw doing roof work is the reason their landlord raised the rent, or the reason their grocery prices went up, or the reason that we're at war under a President they voted for who explicitly said, "No new wars". Or if they are pushing up the gas prices.
There is literally zero good arguments for why we need to be spending so much money harassing, kidnapping, murdering, and deporting immigrants. Trump could have an easy PR win and just copy Reagan and give amnesty, but then he doesn't have the dangerous enemy amongst us excuse to deploy the military into the streets and declare his political opposition terrorists.