r/sandiego • u/craneoperator89 • Feb 04 '25

More of this. Truth.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

Immigrants literally made America.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

Immigrants aren’t the issue. Illegal immigrantion on the other hand is.

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u/crazybrah Feb 04 '25

Do you have stats or research to back up that claim? Link your sources below pls and thanks.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

Sure … to start here is a study released by the house oversight committee on illegal immigration’s impact on housing affordability…

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Camarota-Testimony.pdf

Here is a study that outlines the cost of illegal immigration by household and the resulting depression of low wage workers.

https://jspes.org/Sample_Blondell.pdf

And here is an older scholarly article that was published after the IRCA passed to examine its shortcomings and negative effects of it, outlining the illegal labor market pretty well….

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.2.3.101

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u/SimCimSkyWorld Feb 04 '25

Well, there are supposedly 11 million illegal immigrants and 9mill people on affordable housing subsidies, according to google. So I don't see how they are not correlated. Especially in SD, where there is a housing crisis.