Los Angeles Rent Prices Dropping Because...

Not me. I used to think so, but after I got into an argument with a liberal friend of mine after I suggested that the housing crisis was related to the surge in illegal immigration, and he exploded at me, I changed my mind. His emotional response was very convincing.

Well, it turns out that reality really doesn't respond as one would expect to emotional outbursts, and when demand drops due to fewer people seeking limited resources, prices really do fall.

Los Angeles is one of the most expensive housing markets in the country, and local renters have been enduring price increases for years. Suddenly, after Trump's surge in deportations, the price of rent is slowly going down.

Liberals, for years, have told us that the flood of illegal immigrants (ahem/ undocumented workers /ahem) was a boon to our economy and to the American middle class. They do the jobs Americans won't do, pay taxes, and make our lives more affordable.

Some of us noticed that with the steady flow and the recent flood of illegal immigrants, certain necessities became ever more expensive. While the cost of maids and lawn care services for the upper classes was kept down, housing costs exploded. It's almost as if there was a correlation between these things.

Similarly, a shocking thing happened to the murder rate. During the surge in immigration and the corresponding increase in the "criminal justice reform" and "defund the police" movement, the murder rate (and other crimes) soared dramatically, but under Trump, even with those liberals running major cities, the murder rate dropped like a rock.

To the lowest level in over a hundred years.

Fixed it. 😂😂
pic.twitter.com/H65h78NGzP— FreeThinkerRN 🇺🇸 🕊 (@LisaProsen) January 22, 2026

What a shock! Those policies that all the liberals assure us are fascist and cruel—you know, the ones Americans of most ideological stripes adopted after the crime surge of the 1970s—have made America fantastically safer. At least if you are not attacking federal law enforcement officers who are arresting pedophiles and rapists.

In another surprise, Trump's escalating war on the cartels, which we have been assured is downright evil, has somehow led to a significant decline in fentanyl overdose deaths. As liberals scream in rage at Trump for being so cruel to cartel members and the Venezuelan gangs, the number of Americans dying keeps dropping.

One year. Real Results. Under the Trump administration, ONDCP focused on dismantling cartels, cutting off fentanyl at the border, and saving lives - with major increases and seizures, and the significant decline in overdose deaths. This is what action looks like. #drugczar pic.twitter.com/X59bdiZ3DQ— ONDCP (@ONDCP) January 27, 2026

So let me get this straight. Easing pressure on the housing market that has been impoverishing the young, cracking down on crime and criminal aliens, and dismantling cartels and gangs here and abroad, is unbelievably cruel. Trump is victimizing the oppressed.

Better than Americans die, see their dreams crushed, as a form of reparations to people none of us harmed in the first place. If Somalis loot half of Medicaid funding, it's only because they deserve it. They are victims, and we are the victimizers.

I get why the insurgency on the left has been happy about the way things were before Trump, but I still shake my head at the liberals who ignore the cruelty of their policies. They revel in how "kind" they are to the oppressed, but as they walk through the s**thole cities they created and the crushing of the dreams of America's youth, they think to themselves: "We need to double down on our 'kindness.'"

It never occurs to them that the skyrocketing housing costs are their fault. It never occurs to them that the homelessness crisis is subsidized by them. It never occurs to them that "criminal justice reform" is killing people. They step over the poop in the streets, talk about "food deserts" as supermarkets flee crime, avoid the homeless who are everywhere in their cities, and think: "We need to elect another radical socialist."

When leftist fantasies clash with reality, they get VERY violent. pic.twitter.com/NWyvql7D4m— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) January 29, 2026

Most of them are not stupid. In fact, many of them are extremely smart and well-read. But they are blinded by an ideology, brainwashed by Pravda, and burn with hatred for the "cruelty" of those of us forced to clean up their messes as they call us Nazis.

Liberals are now talking about civil war. Tim Walz has referenced Fort Sumter and Gettysburg, and Edward Markey just called the anarchists attacking law enforcement "Minutemen" and "Minutewomen."

Democrat Ed Markey compares the far-Left mob attacking law enforcement officers in Minneapolis to the Minutemen of the Revolutionary War.

MARKEY: “It actually goes back 250 years when the Minutemen and the Minutewomen rose up…” pic.twitter.com/C2VqjQw2t2— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 29, 2026

They want to be Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Vladimir Lenin. They refer back to the American Revolution and Civil War (and think the good guys were the Confederacy, it seems), but their goals and tactics are straight out of the French Revolution.

I think that most liberals honestly don't understand the harm they are doing and the type of people they are celebrating, but they are now electing literal communists who talk about "seizing the means of production" and opening up the jails.

They expect a utopia to come; what they will get, if they succeed, is The Terror.

housing costs exploded. It's almost as if there was a correlation between these things.

This is a great point that doesn't get discussed enough, which is a shame because it is THE critical factor for understanding the politics of migration.

Cheap immigrant labor overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy at the expense of the working class.

We are often told that "immigrants make the country wealthier.". Well, that's true if you consider GDP to be the appropriate measure of a nation's wealth. After all, even if they are all unemployed, government expenditures are one component of GDP. So the more of them that live off the taxpayers, the higher the GDP. But obviously, that higher GDP doesn't help the country at all.

But even leaving aside the government spending element, the fact that immigration increases GDP should be irrelevant in the immigration debate. Why should any of us care if the aggregate national wealth grows larger? If there are also more people - (which is an inherent part of immigration...), then the average GDP per person might actually be lower because of immigration. That would mean that immigration is actually making us as individuals poorer on average.

That's the base number - GDP per capita - that should be the starting point for discussions on the wisdom of more immigration. And even then, we should be careful that the GDP per capita benefits of immigration are not flowing to one part of the population (the wealthy) at the expense of others.

We very rarely hear that discussed, but it should be front and center in the immigration debate.

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