In a Fox News sit-down with Sean Hannity that's already rippling through the housing-hungry heartland, Vice President JD Vance doesn't mince words: The explosion in U.S. home prices isn't some mysterious market gremlin, it's the direct fallout from flooding the country with 30 million illegal immigrants under Biden's watch. "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants," Vance fires off, pinning the blame on a surge that saw an average of 2.4 million entrants per year from 2021 to 2024, with about 60 percent crossing illegally, per Congressional Budget Office and Goldman Sachs tallies. These newcomers aren't ghosts; they're flesh-and-blood renters and buyers snapping up scarce units, displacing American families in a market already strangled by underbuilding. New home prices doubled, up a staggering 100 percent, in just four years under Biden, while rents and overall housing costs ballooned. Contrast that with the Trump era's modest 1 to 2 percent creep, and Vance's maths isn't just rhetoric; it's a ledger of lost dreams. Illegal immigrants, he argues, are "taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens" amid a national shortfall that demands five million new builds just to catch up. The fix? Seal the border, ramp up deportations, slash blue-state red tape that's choking construction, and unleash robotics to turbocharge building without sidelining blue-collar crews. It's a blueprint for the American Dream reclaimed, not rationed.
Vance's salvo lands like a sledgehammer in a debate long dominated by finger-wagging at "greedy developers" or "NIMBY suburbs," but he's dead right on the symptom: Uncontrolled influxes, legal or otherwise, supercharge demand in a supply-starved system. The U.S. needs to erect those five million homes yesterday, yet regulatory thickets in Democrat strongholds like California keep hammers holstered, turning potential subdivisions into paperwork graveyards. Republican-led states, Vance notes, are actually keeping pace, proving it's policy, not physics, holding us back. And the tech angle? Spot on. Robots won't steal jobs; they'll amplify them, letting skilled tradesmen nail more walls faster, hike wages, and flood the market with affordable roofs. Under Trump 2.0, this isn't pie-in-the-sky, it's the administration's opening bid: Borders first, builds second, because you can't house a nation if you don't know who's in it.
But here's the parallel track Vance leaves half-laid, and one that sharpens the blade: The case against legal immigration is just as damning, if not more insidious, because it's baked into the system with bipartisan stamps of approval. Visa lotteries, chain migration, and endless H-1B pipelines for tech bros don't just add bodies; they add bidders to an auction already tilted against young Americans. Take the numbers: Legal permanent residents topped a million annually pre-Biden, with family reunifications and employment-based greens swelling the pool by millions more over decades. These aren't theoretical; they're families relocating to Sun Belt boomtowns, competing for the same three-bed colonials that millennials eye with despair. A 2024 Federation for American Immigration Reform study pegged the total immigrant-driven demand, legal and illegal, at jacking up rents by 10 to 20 percent in high-inflow metros like Austin and Phoenix. It's basic Economics 101: Flood supply-constrained markets with extra demand, and prices spike. Legal arrivals often arrive with capital, savings from abroad, employer subsidies, or family networks, bidding up starter homes that native-born kids finance on gig wages and student debt. The result? A generation priced out, delaying marriages, kids, and the very family formation that replenishes communities.
This isn't coincidence; it's calculus. Vance blames the illegals, and he should, because their unchecked torrent under Biden was a policy choice, not an act of God, but the legal floodgates have been creaking open since the 1965 Hart-Celler Act, which swapped skills for sentiment and ballooned inflows from Europe to everywhere else, mainly the Third World. Elites love it, not despite the squeeze, but because of it. High housing costs are a feature, not a bug, in the technocratic playbook. Why? Control. When homes cost nine times median income, up from three times in the 1970s, young people stay renters, tethered to urban cores where they're easier to surveil, tax, and mobilise for progressive causes. No equity means no escape to exurbs with big yards and bigger ballots; it keeps the workforce fluid, cheap, and childless, feeding corporate profits and delaying the "burden" of entitlements. Wall Street wins: REITs and developers rake in steady rents from perpetual tenants, while Big Tech imports coders to crash code in company crash pads. Politicians win: Immigrants, legal or not, lean Left in gratitude for the welcome mat, padding electoral maps in swing states. Even the Green lobby cheers, as cramped millennials drive less, consume less, and virtue-signal more about tiny homes and car-free cities.
The elite endgame is a West remade in their image: Rootless, renter-class masses orbiting gleaming towers of power, with immigration as the perpetual pump priming the inequality engine. Vance gets the illegal side, deportations will free up thousands of units overnight, easing pressure in sanctuary cities turned migrant motels, but the full indictment demands auditing the legal spigot too. Cap family chains that balloon households exponentially. Prioritise high-skill visas for true innovators, not indentured labour. And tie inflows to housing starts: No net migration until we build the beds. Anything less is half-measure, letting the flood erode the foundation while elites yacht on inflated asset bubbles.
Vance's truth bomb is a start, but the parallel case turns it incendiary: Immigration, writ large, is the elite's wrecking ball against the middle class. Illegals are the flashy chaos; legals are the steady drip. Both drive prices skyward, but only because the powerful scripted the scarcity. The same points apply to both Australia and Europe who are caught in the same mass immigration madness.