JD Vance Turns The Tables And Demolishes 'Journalist' Pushing Illegal Immigration

Posted • October 12, 2024: JD Vance continues to walk into the lion's den, doing one confrontational interview after another with various mainstream press outlets. The latest occurred in a sitdown with The New York Times, where Vance was peppered with questions about his views on illegal immigration. During a discussion on the topic, Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro brought out an old mainstay among those who support illegal immigration, telling the vice presidential nominee that deportations can't happen because illegal immigrants are needed to build houses. Vance quickly turned the tables on her, though.

JD Vance schools the host on negative impact illegal immigration has on the economy.

Host: The reason that there is a housing crisis is that not enough houses have been built.

Vance: … And that we have 25 million people who shouldn't be here. […]

Let me stop Garcia-Navarro right there. How did she get from "about a third of construction workers are Hispanic" to framing the question as if no houses could be built without the portion of those workers who are illegal immigrants? That's quite the leap by here without providing any hard numbers at all to prove her assertion. (…)

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