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I've heard one bogus conservative argument that tries to tie the immigration issue with the economy issue is: Undocumented immigrants are competing for houses are causing the increased housing prices. This is plainly BS, but I did the math just to show it. It contains some facts that could be useful in looking at the housing issue.
Much less than 2% of potential home bidders would be immigrants.
There are 12 million undocumented immigrants. Less than 10% have the means to buy a home even at pre-inflation prices and they frequently share 1 house, so thats about half a million homes immigrants might bid on.
As of 2023, there are approximately 44.5 million renter-occupied housing units in the United States, which is 34% of all U.S. household. This is a rise of around 10.3% in the last 10 years;
The vast majority (86%) of current renters in the United States say they would like to buy a home, so that is 39 million homes. But less than 60% could afford a home even at pre-inflation prices. So thats less than 25 million holmes.
That says immigrants would be less than 2% of home bidders.
A lack of immigrant labor is one factor contributing to the rise in home prices.
Drug Trade - 90% of fentanyl is smuggled by US citizens not illegal aliens.
Jobs:
Illegal aliens are not taking jobs from citizens.
There are 9 million unfilled job openings in the US.
Most Americans are not interested in taking low wage jobs.
Illegal Immigrants paid $66 billion in taxes in 2023.
See President Reagan's Fairwell Address.
Where he says "If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost."
The anti abortion argument uses Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart".
There is evidence the abortion had a major effect on lowering the crime rate which had been rising for 30 years and started to decline in the 90's, 17 years after Roe vs Wade.
See Abortion
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