Posted on 10/14/2024 7:25:32 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance calmly fended off questions from a reporter who suggested a crackdown on illegal immigration could exacerbate the housing crisis.
Vance, 40, who has long contended that illegal immigration reduces the housing supply and therefore sends prices soaring, brushed aside any notion that illegal immigrants are paramount in building more houses.
“About a third of the construction workforce in this country is Hispanic. Of those, a large proportion are undocumented. So how do you propose to build all the housing necessary that we need in this country by removing all the people who are working in construction?” New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro pressed him.
She stressed that she was “not arguing in favor of illegal immigration,” but merely wanted to gauge how Vance would solve the potential blow to the housing construction sector of his immigration policies.
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Her argument is thoughtless and ridiculous. Is she a Senator?
How did all those homes get built after WW II without illegal alien labor? They were tossed up very very quickly.
I own one of them and my contractor told me the “bones” are still good, I’ve actually had to do very few renovations, the wood floors are all original.
Compare that with the shoddy work that is done by illegals.
If there are fewer illegals needing housing, then how would we need more homes built? Renovations, perhaps, but we’ve certainly got the builders for that.
Morons, one of the shortage of housing reasons is because of them coming here.
“About a third of the construction workforce in this country is Hispanic. Of those, a large proportion are undocumented.”
The owners of any business that uses that amount of illegal labor should be locked up and lose their business.
Good point. I’m sure these same people would have been making the “economic” argument for slavery, in 1860.
First of all...with a couple million less illegals...we don’t need housing for them. It’s a balancing act.
Does she really think the frumpy bookworm look works for her?
Democrats 1864 - If we don’t have slaves, who will pick our crops?
Democrats 2024 - If we don’t have illegals, who will pick our crops?
This was true all along in 1980, 1990, the year 2000 and is even true in 2024, IF YOU GO TO ANY REGIONAL AREA OR TOWNS THAT DO NOT HAVE IMMIGRANTS YOU WILL SEE THAT ALL OF THE WORK GETS DONE JUST LIKE IT ALWAYS HAS.
The tables get bussed, the roofs get repaired, the lawns get mowed, fences repaired, the trees trimmed, the houses and motels cleaned, carpet gets laid, and any other jobs all get done, there is no place in America where the work the left tries to say is only immigrant work doesn’t get done.
Bingo!!! Our government is paying 2X-3X the going rate to “house them”-—driving up prices to the point that the working man can’t afford to rent or own. This is being done on purpose!
Also, to add, this is the equivalent to slave labor....they’re not qualified and are paid minimal so builders make more money while cutting corners. This is equivalent to the shoddy and dangerous DEI hires.
IMHO - Vance missed one important point which would be an arrow-in-the-heart of leftist ideology
Illegal immigration is a corrupt scam which supports rich people and billionaires
Take the Haitians in Springfield as example
The illegals were brought in by Govt funded NGOs, whose CEO’s make $500K or more per year.
They are sent to work for lowest possible wage, to make food that is sold to the likes of Starbucks and Wal-mart. Fed.gov then subsidizes these illegals with welfare payments, food stamps, medicaid, sec. 8 housing, etc...
SO - the whole scam exists to subsidize BILLIONAIRES and left-wing corporate cronies.
Trump took advice from the neocons and brought in the neocon approved Pence and the rest of the staff into his administration and they were almost all disasters. This time he picked Vance against their wishes and he's a home run. I am hoping it's a sign of good things to come, personnel wise.
I agree. he answered the question masterfully. Still, I wonder why republican candidates accept the ridiculous premises that most questions by biased reports are based on.
Remember all the anti-Vance people on this forum after Trump selected him? “Bad pick” “Should have been Tulsi” blah, blah, blah. Where are they now?
Seems like an admission that the elite ivory-tower Left want slave labor...
My father supported a family of six on a roofer’s wages in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Today, those wages have decreased, and it’s no longer possible for an American roofer to raise a family on them. If they raise the wages they will find more good working Americans willing to do those job.
I'd like to know who is making money then when a roof costs $25,000 and takes one week with 3-4 workers.
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