J.D. Vance left a New York Times reporter stunned by dismantling the argument that illegal immigrants are essential to the U.S. economy.The Senator made the case that a simple solution to the migrant crisis would be to employ 7 million male Americans who have dropped out of the labor force, rather than relying on the annual inflow of approximately 2 million undocumented migrants.Vance says he doesn’t think America needs to rely on cheap immigrant workers and advocated for Donald Trump’s proposal to deport all undocumented people living illegally in the U.S.His argument set social media ablaze as The Times podcast host Lulu Garcia-Navarro was mocked for saying if illegal immigrants are deported the housing crisis will get worse and the blue collar labor force will cease to function.Some MAGA accounts fawned over the vice presidential candidate for his argument. Sen. J.D. Vance was praised on social media for pushing back on a New York Times reporter claiming America needs to rely on cheap immigrant construction workers to fix the housing crisis
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‘JD Vance leaves NYT reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro speechless,’ one X user wrote.Another wrote of Vance: ‘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.’Vance argues that more Americans would work in jobs like construction if they were paid a livable wage – but that big companies don’t want to do that because they can import cheap labor from Central America through undocumented workers.Garcia-Navarro said in the podcast interview: ‘The reason that there is a housing crisis is that not enough houses have been built.”And that we have 25 million people who shouldn’t be here,’ Vance shot back, adding: ‘I think it’s both.”But about a third of the construction workforce in this country is Hispanic,’ she noted. ‘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?’ she questioned.’I think it’s a fair question, because we know that back in the 1960s when we had very low levels of illegal immigration, Americans didn’t buy houses, didn’t build houses. But of course, they did. And I’m being sarcastic, of course, in service of a point Lulu.”The assumption that because a large number of home builders now are using undocumented labor, that that’s the only way to build homes, I think again betrays a fundamental –’ he said, but was cut off.’The need is much bigger,’ the NY reported insisted. ‘I mean, I’m not arguing in favor of illegal immigration. I’m asking how you would deal with the knock-on effect of your proposal to remove millions of people who work in a critical part of the economy.’ New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro said that the U.S. relies on illegal immigrant work force and said the housing crisis will get worse if all undocumented migrants are deportedVance pointed to the unemployed Americans who could be tapped to work in construction or other blue collar jobs that don’t get involved because of the wages that companies are able to pay undocumented workers.’This is one of the really deranged things that I think illegal immigration does to our society is it gets us in a mindset of saying we can only build houses with illegal immigrants and we have 7 million just men – not even women – just men who have completely dropped out of the labor force,’ the VP candidate said.’People say, well, Americans won’t do those jobs. 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. They will just do those jobs at certain wages.’The 4.1 percent unemployment rate does not include labor force participation dropouts, which Vance said are the people most likely to do jobs like construction but feel disenfranchised by the American labor force.If a Trump-Vance administration gets into the White House next year, the team has said it would work towards the removal of all illegal and undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.Vance says that this would help decrease the housing crisis because 25 million illegal immigrants would no longer be taking away homes from Americans in need of shelter.’We cannot have an entire American business community that is giving up on American workers and then importing millions of illegal laborers,’ Vane said. ‘That is what we have thanks to Kamala Harris’s border policies.”I think it’s one of the biggest drivers of inequality,’ he added. ‘It’s one of the biggest reasons why we have millions of people who’ve dropped out of the labor force. Why try to reengage 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? It is a disgrace and it has led to the evisceration of the American middle class.’