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There is in fact no actual housing shortage in the USA whatsoever. The problem is that that wealthy individuals have strong incentives to park excess capital in real estate and landlords have strong incentives to maintain asset values through cash flow potential (appraised through $/sq.ft rent revenues). What ends up happening in both cases is that you end up with lots of empty houses sitting collecting dust artificially gaining value due to scarcity, and with rentals, you end up with perpetually inflated rents and vacancy rates that are as high as a landlord can tolerate just to maintain the appearance of value to the lenders. Often these owners will borrow more money and use an apartment that might be 40% vacant as the collateral for the lender and go buy another building and so on. What people don't penalize is the fact that that 40% vacant building with 60% rented out at above fair value gets treated on the balance sheet to the bank as if its 90% rented out from an asset value perspective thereby setting the asset price artificially high. Simple legislation of the tax code can fix this issue and unlock lots of sidelined housing. All we have to do is progressively tax 2nd 3rd 4th ect. homes higher and higher rates that essentially cancel out the asset gains, and do something similar for vacant units in a apartment building. \nIts just at the core a case of the rich hoarding something that has been made artificially rare. On top of all of this, because of how valuable properties have become, there are now many interests that capitalize on the entire process of building new housing that make it ever more expensive. Our taxes are funding numerous regulators that stymie new development, while the developers have to then hire numerous attorneys and planners to pitch a project and litigate it through the cities to get approvals. This can take over 10 years in a major city. All this contributes to the ridiculous costs of building these days.

I dont care where you are from. You have no right to invade the borders of a sovereign nation in a day and age of t*rrorism and take money, jobs and opportunities created by an entirely different nation of people FOR THEMSELVES and their children. Its funny when it comes to trees or fossil fuels or ozone, name it, liberals think we have limited resources but when it comes to land, housing, jobs, welfare etc. those resources are UNLIMITED for illegal criminals so some useless lib loser can virtue signal.

Here for the free money

Reaches PEOPLE ON THE WORLD. Maybe we have to learn from Indian . \nThey leave for money pray for money . Not clean but it’s ok . Community deal only with Indian . Always asking for discount. But very Family nation ?

We went through this 8 years ago! These people save lives and defend our citizens.. The new administration's silly arguments are wasting time, money, and energy (AGAIN) and it's insulting to the people who serve this country... Just another tactic to distract us

Just imagine the time and money that has gone into training all these service people. And, you're going to cut them loose. Shows just how juvenile Trump is. You would think he wouldn't care who's risking their lives as long as it's not him.

THANKS ALOT BIDEN/ HARRIS ! YOU MESSED UP THE ENTIRE WORLD AND LEFT ONE HUGE MESS FOR TRUMP AND AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!!!! AS YOUR SITTING IN YOUR SAFE ,SECURE WORLDS WITH ALL THE STOLEN MONEY YOU EMBEZZLED

My family has been here for many many generations and some of them were native Americans. Now I am in my 70's and cannot stretch my social security to last 4 weeks. But the past biden regime gave the invaders millions and refused to give the senior citizens a survivable raise and it is our own money. LBJ stole from ss and all the other government thieves stealing from the tax payers to support the invaders. The invaders spread the word that the U S A will make them rich so here they come. Deport all of them and close the border. I am sick and tired of supporting all of these other countries.

All they do is walk around looking at their phones, prob searching 'free money canada'

Why should we pay for hormones and operations and doctors and tax money for these people to cut their organs.

In America the need for them has diminished by over 600,00 jobs lost in the last two years. More job losses in their chosen fields are coming too. I confess not suffering through the entire presentation but 2025 is bringing a lot of unemployed technical people from entry-level to senior positions in America. It would be great if everybody had a very good job but those days are over for a while. The usual human activity of debt and destruction accumulates to the point where too many people run out of money and the economies run out of steam.

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What do you expect! The entitlement is unbelievable! They are coming for the free money, free housing, free food, free healthcare, free clothing, free schooling for kids, etc. They get here & demand all these to things & have been getting them under Biden/Harris! Makes me sick!

Why even try for the visa to apply it costs u a lot n that money goes to them west n euro n fails u that's another scam business for them west n euro

Good news for India. More people is equal to more GST money. FM will be very happy.

Automatics are a good deterrent!\nThey want that free money Xiden was handing out.\nArmed guards are needed.\nTrash.did dimwits pay off this bunch or Soros?

I'm with you cuz whose money are they giving to these immigrants but ours none of it belongs to the politicians we pay they get money from US ! ?

We can’t support the world!\nLegal immigration is good.\nThis craziness is terrible, and giving out money and free hotel rooms is just making more people try to get in illegally! It is bankrupting our country.

They missed the boat by a week. They all would have gotten free flights, 5 star hotels, free phones and money from Biden!!

If Americans can’t get free money housing why do illegals think they can!!

As far as healthcare goes the US is a 3rd world country, where, only the rich can afford to see a doctor, or visit a hospital. You have thousands of people living on the streets, with NO help, or concern. America is no different than Bangladesh, or Ethiopia, for having a part of your society living on the street, begging for food, or money. When the US starts caring for ALL of it's people, regardless of skin color, race, or background, and give them a hand up, like most CIVILIZED societies do, you'll always be a 3rd world country. America had a chance to elect a president that would have turned America into a first world power with Kamala Harris, and Tim Waiz, but, you blew it, you re-elected the worst president, EVER with trump, who will finish the job of ruining America, and make it totally poverty-stricken. WOW, you'd think Americans are all millionaires, the way they turned out, for trump! Did NONE of you listen to what Kamala was offering? Because this half blind, mostly deaf old Canadian heard every word, her promise of a bottom-up building more opportunities for poor, and working class families, new taxes on the rich, and corporations to pay for it. Kamala offered a GREAT deal, a more secure future, more OPPORTUNITIES,,,,, And you all turned her down. You voted for a stalker and rapist, a traitor, and criminal, with multiple convictions, a liar, and cheat, trump. I guess you get what you deserve.

My quandary is before Trump initiated this action for Ice, to start cracking down on immigration, why in the hell did we keep all these agents on the payroll. prior to this recent enacted legislation, all presidents to include Trump before and since Biden’s? administration never were tough on immigration, so what was this wasteful government organization doing all these years, while immigrants were having free reign? This is only one of many government agencies formed, that do nothing but cost taxpayers money from their paychecks?

Employees stop hiring under the table \n\nNo money \n\nNo problems\n\nLet them in they will catch cases \n\n\nI'm sure Biden and Kamala are probably paying them to cause problems ?

Those officers who caught illegal immigrants at borders, there is possibility that officier will take huge money to let them enter in usa .

As someone who has done the immigration process legally, and know of people who have done it legally, I think it’s unfair that these illegal migrants can just come while I and those who done the process right had to pay a lot of money and wait a long time. People who are against this why don’t you understand? I have family who in their own country had to wait a LONG time for a visa just to visit the US and pay a lot too. I’m grateful for that Trump came into the office

These people have been lied to and they are out money because of it. Would be funny if the resettlement NGOs got sued for fraud.

Man coming to America, man we are FULL UP in America. SOCIAL SECURITY going broke.Tell your Politicians to use the money to build their country

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They are not refugees they are not seeking political asylum they're leaving a country that was paying them free money and now they're not getting any more free money and now they want to come to another country where they can get free money.

Trump needs to offer a tip line that pays people for reporting illegals and the businesses and landlords that hire and house them. the awards can be paid for by the fines the state can charge businesses and landlords that willing hire and house illegal immigrants.\nFine businesses and landlords $5000 per illegal found living or working on their property. And pay the tipster $500 per tip that leads to an ice arrest. The rest of the money can go towards from the fines can be used for deportation and funding ice and border patrol.

They don’t want to fix their own countries because here they will get ( EBT , FREE HOUSING, FREE HEALTHCARE and much more the are taking American taxpayers money and later they will robe and kill ) our veterans and American taxpayers are homeless sleeping on streets ….

Canadian Government is sleeping unfortunately to welcome more refugees as guest and provide them facilites by using tax payers money. Such a shame on dumb politicians. Ruined our Canada

This is theater. Remember 2008. Financial institutions admitted that without black market money the economy would have crumbled. This current mutual hostility is fake.

What's wrong with these people? Money isn't growing on the trees in America. Stay in your country instead of being in miserable situation. Especially the Afghans who don't love their country to rebuild it. I don't think these people will due of starvation if they return to their countries.

This fits Trump's narrative too well. CNN coverage has changed since ownership switched hands. We knew it would be gradual perceptive switch but it has indeed fallen from the standards of the past. Closer to a fox for the next caste up. You only know what you are shown. You work the same job and see the same people. If you watch the same news outlets you are exposing yourself to information crafted from the same perspective. My world is small vs reality and yours is too. Think about the decades of Americans trying to keep them out, investing money in walls and barriers and wire when we could have helped stabilize these countries to where these guys wouldn't feel like they HAD to come here to live with dignity. All To be treated like this. We have had decades to fix the problem acknowledge the root problem, but we spend our tax money, time, and efforts reapplying bandaids and barriers at the border.

Why don’t we send money, skills, and resources to help assist these countries with becoming better places to live…so that they stop needing to come into America! We send billions+ to aid other countries that despise America why not start with the poorer countries connected to our borders…?\n\nJust food for thought…\n\nThis is sad on sooo many levels…So much to be said…yet in the end Border control is VERY necessary.

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The two flights to Mexico that got turned away carried less than 100 migrants cost US taxpayers $900,000! CNN might want to mention that. Drumpf used expensive military jets because he just couldn't wait for CBP jets (because he wanted a photo shoot!). He should have to pay for the extra cost out of his pocket, not ours. What will it cost to take migrants back to China? Tax cuts for the billionaire broligarchs cost US money. Using C-130 aircraft is overkill and affects military readiness. Threatening tariffs on our allies is going to spark trade wars. He's a moron.

Hey this is smart Hey look at all those jobs out there do you want them any about next voting put exterior maintenance law new government division put your name phone number and address and when they call you tell him you stand behind it better than losing your house is there a bad enough that they make money off of our artists listen to Tom McDonald's watch first post vantage\nNow you have the power to teach them how to suffer

When he said OK we will remove all US money and the Cartels will be back in charge. Immediate yes sir.

Send them to greenland . Tell the illeagal immegrants that they have to go back to their own country with your own money .They have to take efforts to reach their own respective motherland .

We don’t need food and who cares that we have a trade surplus with Columbia. You’re just gonna have to pay more money for your bananas and your other tropical fruits or start eating American fruits.

Hi ! What a waste of time and money ? !!

We let this shit happen that when you want to give free money housing health able to pop out 10 kids and pay for everyone , while we the tax payers have to eat it and stay quiet . We the legal business owner have to settle for what ever we are offered for a job to get by cause there is always someone gonna do it for 10 times less when it could be paid to the people the holds licenses. We don’t get money in the back or a card every month for food we are denied , am vets a getting the bear minimum, and the piece of food is not changing ,

I am so glad those countries are standing up to this bully and his fascist party. I am also glad he is putting tariffs on them which means things over here will become higher for all of us. Yes the good is going to have to suffer with those that wanted to see how it feels to have this country ran by the lawless, no morals racists people in this country. To have rapist, drunks and traitor to this country in charged. And those White people that voted for him they are going to feel it to maybe even more because he takes his money right out of their account every month and they can not stop it. They need to listen to Billy Graham sermon called Choices. Please do not never think Franklin Graham is like his father he is not he is like the father that Christ speaks about in John 8 verse 44 and all those that voted for Trump and helped spread or spreading his lies. The word called them oligarchies and Trump calls them his people but the bible calls the MAGA party, the false men and women that help spreads his lies and those that worship Trump an Idolater. All of them are from Franklin Graham to the proud boys. These so call men and women of their god have deceived many for him. Those corrupted judges or no different than the proud boys. The whole MAGA party is no different than the proud boys. These people are no different than the racists proud boys, 700 club, TBN, Jentezen Franklin, Donnie Swaggart, John Hagee, Jim Jordan, Mike Johnson, Mike Huckabee, Paula White. No different just different level in life but in God's eyes they all on the same worshipping a man. And to the rich read about the rich man that went to hell, and about the rich man that built his barn. We only make them strong they can only do what we allowed them to do. There are more good in this country than those evil people. I hear a man say you can take 100 evil people and make millions fall in line and do what they say because they fear what the evil people can do. One thing I do know for sure God and me are enough... but God and me and millions more of children we will do just fine in the next two years and more.

Wrong! It doesn’t cost Americans more when a tariff is placed. It forces the incoming product manufacturer to lower its costs so people will still buy, and if people still buy, the percentage of tariff will fund the us government vs our income taxes. If they don’t lower their costs, they risk people not buying which hurts their business and hurts the country they are in because they don’t make as much money to send taxes to their country’s government

Great Biden would never of sent migrants back and Obama would of said sorry let’s give u money and forget about it Biden would of said the same thing but Hunter would of put the money in his account instead ?

Trump solved the problem and saved the taxpayers money the Columbian president will send their own plane to pick them up

This is a much easier fix than what’s being portrayed. We need to make the ability to become a temporary citizen easier than it is. Background checks, usable skills, and political or criminal affiliation. If it’s not possible to access, so is your entry. I support my president and my nation completely and yet I still understand that the deplorable conditions of these broken nations is something I too would want to escape from. By making it so impossible to legally enter, we’re funding the criminals who will do so illegally. \n And can we talk openly about the real issue as well? It’s time for the U.S to clean house too. Government officials taking bribes from the Cartels and making it harder for us to put safety measures in place. We have to stop being in business with these criminal elements. I get it, the money’s being used to fund our military initiatives that tax dollars can’t, like in the 80’s with Contra, but how many U.S lives have to be lost to secure a foreign policy???