Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance criticized what he called the “deranged” idea that the country needs illegal immigrants to solve the housing crisis.
Vance appeared on the New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast on Saturday where he was asked about former President Trump’s plan to begin deporting the millions of illegal immigrants currently in the country. Host Lulu Garcia-Navarro pointed out a third of construction workers are Hispanic and “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?” Garcia-Navarro asked.
“Well, 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 build houses. But, of course they did. And I’m being sarcastic in service of a point,” Vance responded.
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