MaddowBlog-Why JD Vance's effort to blame immigrants for housing prices is a self-defeating mess

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The vice president claimed low-income immigrants are entering the U.S., becoming “servants” and buying up excessive amounts of real estate. Seriously?

JD Vance claims millions of struggling immigrants are entering the U.S. and becoming “servants.”

He also thinks they’re getting mortgages and buying up excessive amounts of real estate, driving up home prices.

It’s as if he’s not even trying to make sense anymore. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-11-14T15:31:23.033Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jd-vances-effort-blame-immigrants-housing-prices-self-defeating-mess-rcna243904

For that matter, given the Trump administration’s eagerness to bring in foreign workers to fill positions across the president’s assorted properties, the vice president’s argument isn’t likely to do Donald Trump any favors.

But as part of the same on-air appearance, Vance added a related thought as part of his broader anti-immigrant pitch.

JD Vance: "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 who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-11-13T21:44:29.950Z

“A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive,” the vice president said. “Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought, by right, go to American citizens.”

At this point, we could talk about the fact that Vance’s “30 million illegal immigrants” claim is demonstrably silly, as he really ought to know. We could also note how outrageous it is to see the Ohioan routinely try to blame every societal challenge on those born outside the United States......

The American public is apparently supposed to believe that millions of struggling, low-income immigrants are entering the United States and becoming “servants.” We’re apparently also supposed to believe that these same immigrants are somehow qualifying for mortgages and buying up excessive amounts of American real estate, driving up home prices.

I’m mindful of the fact that the White House is struggling with affordability — to the point that Team Trump is rallying behind 50-year mortgages — but Vance might want to workshop his talking points a bit more.

[GreenWave]

1. Do they also change their last name from Bowman to Vance to escape ICE?

[lame54]

2. It's with all the money they save from...

Eating the cats and dogs

[tonkatoy8888]

3. Exactly!

Don't buy avocado toast and coffee is so 2024.

Kids, if you want to buy a house just kill every immigrant you see and eat their cats and dogs.

Voila, with the money you save on groceries (it's an old fashioned word) eating the neighborhood felines and canines AND eliminating the pesky immigrants blocking your path you'll soon be on your way to the American dream of home ownership.

JD Vance is an incredibly ineffective propogandist.

Oh, and also an idiot.

[leftstreet]

4. Who are his press handlers?

The shouldn't let him talk. At all.

“Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don’t talk about it.”

— J.D. Vance, Twitter, 2021