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Vice-President JD Vance stopped with a heckling during a speech on Monday in which he said that the expulsion of undocumented immigrants would lower housing prices.
Vance was addressed to the National League of Washington cities, DC, when a woman in the audience began to shout her objections.
“I see that one of our nice representatives in fact wants, I suppose, to continue to flood the country with illegal immigrants, making your communities and your citizens unaffordable,” said Vance in return, to a mixture of huae and blows.
“But madam, with all respect, one of the reasons why we do what we do is because we want to make more affordable for Americans.”
The confrontation broke out while the Trump administration intensifies its plans to expel “millions”, doubling Daily immigration stops their level under Joe Biden.
The roundups attracted not only undocumented immigrants without criminal accusations, but also American citizensAmerindians, and A Palestinian student who protested Israelwith prisoners warehouses in foreign hotels And even, briefly, Guantanamo Bay.
Reports suggest that the administration can also Revoke the immigration status of so-called dreamers – people brought to the country by their parents as babies or children who have mainly grown in America – and roughly 875,000 people from countries in difficulty such as Ukraine, Afghanistan and Haiti which are here on humanitarian status.
Although Vance said that deportation efforts were partly motivated by the desire to reduce the prices of housing for American citizens, the link between immigration and housing costs is contested by experts.
“Regulation on local zoning, the cost of energy. These things concern the supply of housing: how can we get more houses to build?” said vance, according to Images of the pro-Trump diffusion network on the right (Heckler’s remarks were inaudible).
“But when we talk about housing and why the costs are so high, we are not talking about demand enough. And one of the engines of increased housing demand, we know, is that we have many people in the past four years who have entered the country illegally …”
He added: “Think of this: if you allow 20 million people to compete with American citizens for houses, you will have a wide and frankly completely preventable peak in the demand for housing. And it is of course that we have seen.”
Most estimates Put the number of illegal immigrants in the United States at around 11 to 14 million, although a report said it could reach 17 million.
