TimHauck

A lot of conversation around the number of students absent from school. I’m sure the increase vs a normal day is driven by immigration enforcement, but I am curious how many of the actual children are illegal vs legal children of illegal parents.

@Frozenbeernuts: nothing changed!

Yeah let’s just forget that middle part where he didn’t want them released and said they were a Democrat hoax. convenient!

I’m not freaking out. I just think it’s hilarious that you think Trump telling people to stop talking about it and that it was a hoax, and calling people to change their vote to block the release of the files, and Patel saying that there was no list and no third parties besides Epstein were implicated…to now saying we need to investigate Democrats and release the files…somehow translates to “nothing changed.” Bahahahahhaa you’re such a sheep.

OK

Well you’d be wrong.

He did confirm it. He admitted illegals aren’t the reason for the increased prices. HTH

Thanks again for confirming illegals have always been roofers. Do you have any evidence that the % of roofers being illegal has massively increased in recent years?

Ok for real this time since you actually admitted it, thanks for confirming that roofing price increases aren’t because of increases in illegal labor! Also, with your last paragraph, are you saying that there would not be enough roofing labor if not for illegals? That’s another interesting admission. It also seems to be backtracking a bit from your prior claim of “massive increases” in illegal labor, and now just focusing on the fact that illegal labor exists in general, even though I’m sure it’s been that way for awhile.

Thanks for confirming that roofing price increases aren’t because of an increase in illegal labor!

So are you saying that prices have increased BECAUSE of an increase in illegal labor? If so, how?

Pretty sure this potential new ruling wouldn’t have even impacted Khelif

Just further evidence to show that Gaines isn’t just against trans in women’s sports, she is against trans folks in general. HTH

Bahahhahahahaha you’re such a sheep

This stat proves illegal immigration isn’t a significant driver in home prices broadly. It’s okay @jonnyutah, you can admit it.

I’ve seen it stated here (without evidence of course) that the mass deportations will solve the housing affordability crisis. I don’t understand how people can actually think this with a straight face. I’ve acknowledged that illegal immigration surely had some localized impacts on home prices & rents, but it’s mainly going to be at the lowest price levels, and of course only in areas where the illegals are actually going to (yet in 2020-2022 prices went up pretty much everywhere). More competition for cheap apartments in higher-crime areas isn’t going to lead to suburban homes costing $750K+. Here is some data with more reasons it’s likely not illegal immigration driving increased housing costs on a national basis: https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/role-recent-immigrant-surge-housing-costs The surge in housing prices was driven by the pandemic in 2020, when immigration was at its lowest levels. And actually cooled down in 2023, despite the continued surge in immigration. And in 2024, several cities with large illegal immigrant populations, such as Houston and Tampa, saw no essentially increase or in the case of Tampa, a decline in home prices. https://www.fastcompany.com/91279086/housing-market-shift-where-home-prices-are-starting-to-fall IMO, if home prices come down in the next few years, it’s going to be driven by increases in unemployment. Of course I know if that happens people will claim it was because of mass deportations. But sticking to the present, I’m curious to see if anyone has any actual data to back up the claim that illegal immigration is a major factor in national home prices.

I’m betting his theory will be that their work is sh1tty so that means roofs need to be replaced more, creating more demand. But even if work has gotten sh1ttier, I don’t think it’s necessarily fair to blame it on illegals since illegals can do good work, and I’d need to see numbers that the % of illegals working in roofing has actually increased significantly in recent years, seems like there have probably always been a lot.

Because claiming that illegals are the reason home prices NATIONALLY, TO BUY are so high is what’s really la la land stuff. I acknowledge that illegals will increase rent prices in areas where there are a lot of them. But primarily at the lower end, and not in areas where there aren’t a lot of illegals, yet home prices went up similar amounts almost everywhere, at all price brackets. And the huge increases recently really started in 2020/2021, partly before Biden could have a chance to take down razor wire, and definitely before it could have had any noticeable impact on the housing market. Edit: And then you blamed illegals for increasing housing costs in Cook County despite the population going down, which completely contradicts your claim above, lol. Even data that you shared yourself said even in places like Houston their effect was somewhere around 1%.

I’m not denying that roofing costs have gone up. But are you implying that you think prices have gone up BECAUSE of illegals? If so, please explain why you think that is. This reminds me of covid vax conversations where people like you would say the vax must not have worked because people still died, when most likely, more people would have died without it (and here, costs likely would have gone up even more if less illegals were being employed). I’d also be curious to see stats on an alleged increase in illegals as a % of total roofing workers. I feel like there’s probably always been a lot of illegals working in roofing and I’d be surprised if the % has really increased that dramatically.

Yes it does, and I already posted other tweets of hers showing it as well at the time.

lol at @TBayXXXVII

Enlighten me. I’m guessing your claim will be that the illegals don’t know what they’re doing so roofs need to be replaced more often than they should be. I’d need to see some data to back that up. Because the laws of economics would say that if they’re doing a crappy job, those companies wouldn’t do well, or at the very least management would realize they’re doing a crappy job and either teach them to do better or hire someone else that will. And if they pay more for labor, they’d likely charge the consumer more. I would assume another factor increasing demand has been the boom in new construction being built overall. I guess you’ll try to blame that on all the illegals buying up new construction housing and then I’ll laugh at you again. edit: also I can’t speak to roofing specifically, but I know in a prior conversation with @Strike I mentioned I’ve often seen better work from guys that didn’t speak English (albeit maybe they weren’t illegal) than from Americans. Just because they’re illegal doesn’t mean they don’t know what they’re doing.

lol, wrong. If the first 2 are yes, then the third will be as well.

*Border patrol. They apparently just picked up some landscapers in my old neighborhood.

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