Mass deportations of illegal aliens are a good thing. They’re vital and necessary. But the people selling them as economic relief are lying. In the long term, mass deportations will improve the economic situation, but in the short term, it’ll raise prices. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it, but lying about the effects is a big mistake.
Twitter trends have pushed the idea that we don’t need more houses, we can just create housing availability and lower housing costs through mass deportations.
It doesn’t work that way.
There are only a few million illegal aliens who are homeowners (the correct number should be zero, but that’s another story) and their homes tend to be in places that no one else really wants to live.
Housing markets are local. Putting thousands of homes in a slum in Texas or LA on the market isn’t going to do anything to help lower costs nationwide.
Those homes also tend to be substandard, lack basic repairs and the most likely renters and buyers for them will be other Latin Americans with or without citizenship.
In other words, the net effect of mass deportations on the housing market will be to attract more immigrants and migrants from Latin America.
