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https://nypost.com/2024/10/13/us-news/jd-vance-shocks-nyt-reporter-with- his-nuanced-takedown-of-illegal-immigration/

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.

Vance noted he agrees with the litany of economists who�ve said the US has produced far fewer houses than it should have over recent decades.

But he took issue with the notion that illegal immigrants are needed to
bolster that supply and harkened back to the 1960s, when he said the
country managed to build housing despite a low level of illegal
immigration at the time.

�I think that what you would do is you would take, let�s say for example,
the 7 million prime-age men who have dropped out of the labor force, and
you have a smaller number of women � you absolutely could re-engage folks
into the American labor market,� Vance countered.

�People say, �Well, Americans won�t do those jobs,'� Vance acknowledged,
before rebutting that common argument. �Americans won�t do those jobs for below-the-table wages. They won�t do those jobs for non-living wages, but people will do those jobs.�

A Harvard study published earlier this year found that some 22.4 million households spent over 30% of their income on rent and that some 12.1
million doled out over 50% of their earnings for rent.

Former President Donald Trump has vowed to deport the millions of illegal immigrants residing within the US, which some estimates peg around at
least 11 million, though other projections have the figure much higher.

Vance has long argued that removing illegal immigrants will free up the
housing supply, and therefore, push prices downward.

The Buckeye State senator also dubbed illegal immigration �one of the
biggest drivers of inequality.�

�It�s one of the biggest reasons why we have millions of people dropped
out of the labor force. Why try to re-engage an American citizen in a good
job if you can just import somebody from Central America who�s going to
work under the table for poverty wages?� Vance asked.

�It is a disgrace, and it has led to the evisceration of the American
middle class.�

The exchange quickly gained traction on social media and won Vance acclaim among the MAGA faithful.

�JD Vance puts on an absolute masterclass in a NYT interview where the
host tries to gaslight him on America�s housing crisis and illegal
immigration problem,� the CartierFamily X account wrote.

�JD Vance � appreciation post! Watch how he counters this NYT journalist
with facts, wit, and charisma. It�s amazing to watch a political
powerhouse come into his own right before our eyes,� Spectre Strategies
CEO Javon Price posted on X.

�Again, great answers from J.D. Vance. But this �I am not well read
outside of my political echo chamber but I�m shockingly arrogant about it� posture embodied by NYT�s Lulu Garcia-Navarro, is one of the many things
that makes our propaganda press so repulsive to most people,� Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway wrote on X.

Vance sat down with Garcia-Navarro for the most recent episode of her
podcast, �The Interview,� which dropped Saturday.

The freshman senator has been doing a blitz of media interviews, including
with less-than-friendly hosts, during the 2024 election crunch period.


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