Loomer Unleashed - Laura Loomer - The Great Replacement, Episode 2: THE AMERICAN DREAM
Aired: 2024-10-14
Duration: 11:45


=== Immigration's Economic Impact (11:43) ===

[00:00:01]  Border arrests have soared to an all-time high.
[00:00:04]  According to the new data from Customs and Border Protection, 1.7 million migrants have been arrested along the U.S.-Mexico border in the last fiscal year.
[00:00:13]  Raped and beaten to death on a hiking trail to the suspect.
[00:00:17]  Illegal migrants from El Salvador.
[00:00:20]  Investigators say he used a rifle to kill five people, including a nine-year-old boy.
[00:00:25]  Teresa Winter joins us live with more on why everyone's immigration status is being called into question.
[00:00:31]  The illegal immigrant suspected in the killing of Georgia College student Lakin Riley is now asking to suppress multiple pieces of evidence ahead of the trial.
[00:00:40]  Two Venezuelan migrants are under arrest in Houston, charged with murdering 12-year-old Jocelyn Hungarai.
[00:00:46]  Authorities connecting Mexico's infamous Sinaloa drug cartel to an underground Chinese banking group in Southern California.
[00:00:54]  They've had to send in counselors to talk to her kids.
[00:00:56]  She's 28 years old.
[00:00:57]  She had her whole life ahead of her.
[00:00:59]  The man who killed her was in the country illegally.
[00:01:03]  Our immigration system is broken, and if there was ever a case that reflected that, it's this one.
[00:01:10]  Suddenly a shot rang out.
[00:01:12]  Kate fell and looked at me and said, help me, Dad.
[00:01:18]  Those are the last words I will ever hear from my daughter.
[00:01:21]  The End
[00:01:51]  In the year 1950, the average family income in America was $3,300.
[00:02:19]  The average cost of a house was $7,300, just over twice as much as the average income.
[00:02:26]  The average cost of food per month for a family was between $30 and $50 per month.
[00:02:33]  The average cost of a gallon of gas was 27 cents.
[00:02:37]  The inflation rate was just 1.9%.
[00:02:41]  The homelessness rate wasn't even tracked, as it was too low to calculate.
[00:02:47]  In 2023, the median personal income was $42,000, and the average sales price of a home was $495,000, over 10 times as much as an average American income.
[00:03:01]  The average monthly cost of food ranged from $1,000 to $1,500 and the average cost of a gallon of gas grew to $3.49.
[00:03:10]  The inflation rate was 4.1% and the homeless population skyrocketed to 653,000 people.
[00:03:21]  Americans today, especially the younger generations, know nothing of the economic prosperity that once defined the American dream.
[00:03:32]  Being able to build a family, buy a house while you're young, and put your kids through college all on one income is completely beyond the grasp of the average American today.
[00:03:44]  In 2023, 66% of families were dual income households, and by the early 2010s, about half of U.S. college students were burdened with an average of $25,000 in loan debt.
[00:03:58]  Since 1950, not only has personal debt, homelessness, general disparity, and the cost of a home increased dramatically, but surprisingly, the productivity of the American worker has increased by 254%.
[00:04:12]  Americans are working harder and getting less.
[00:04:16]  If Americans are producing more value than in previous decades, why is it harder than ever to live a comfortable life?
[00:04:24]  In 2023, about one in every six jobs was occupied by an immigrant or a visa holder.
[00:04:30]  In any labor market, as the supply of available labor increases, wages decrease.
[00:04:36]  However, the income of newly arrived immigrants is estimated to be 17% lower than the income of native foreign Americans.
[00:04:44]  These immigrants are willing to work for less, which drives wages down even further.
[00:04:49]  Also, when an employer hires an illegal alien, they must be hired off the books, which provides employers several incentives for hiring illegal immigrants.
[00:04:58]  Employers do not have to pay illegal aliens a minimum wage.
[00:05:02]  They don't have to provide them benefits like health care and retirement.
[00:05:06]  They don't have to give them vacation or workers' comp.
[00:05:09]  If you ran a business, why wouldn't you hire illegals?
[00:05:14]  The typical American loses 27-30% of their paycheck to taxes.
[00:05:19]  If you go to any city in America, everything is dirty.
[00:05:23]  The parks are overrun with homeless people, police aren't doing their job, and people are being murdered on public transportation.
[00:05:30]  It's a nightmare.
[00:05:31]  Where is all of our tax money going?
[00:05:33]  Governor Gavin Newsom Tuesday signing a measure to provide health care to low-income undocumented immigrants.
[00:05:40]  President Trump opposes those subsidies and says U.S. citizens come first.
[00:05:44]  There's no evidence that bringing people into this country makes the rest of us richer.
[00:05:48]  How can we afford to give billions of dollars to illegal immigrants in this country, but we've got to go back to the well to provide for our own citizens?
[00:05:55]  That's a disgrace.
[00:05:56]  Tolerance for illegal immigration is not compassionate.
[00:06:00]  It is actually very cruel.
[00:06:06]  In 2023, $3.8 trillion, or 60% of the federal budget, was spent on entitlement programs.
[00:06:13]  $1.1 trillion was spent on welfare programs alone.
[00:06:19]  A 2018 study by the Center for Immigration Studies found that 63% of non-citizen households are the beneficiary of at least one welfare program.
[00:06:29]  For comparison, only 35% of Native-born American households are on welfare.
[00:06:35]  I approached yesterday by a non-speaking, a non-English-speaking member of the community now, one of our new residents, that apparently purchased my home.
[00:06:48]  I was not aware.
[00:06:50]  I'm getting pushed out of my home.
[00:06:54]  By someone that can't speak my language and doesn't know the law and doesn't know the rules.
[00:07:00]  But I want to know where the resources are for us.
[00:07:03]  I had to take a pay cut of a fourth of what I made.
[00:07:08]  And now on top of that, I'm being asked to leave my home by someone that can't communicate this to me.
[00:07:15]  We're getting pushed out of this community.
[00:07:19]  While almost twice as many non-citizen U.S. residents per capita are on welfare, U.S. citizens are responsible for around 85% of the tax burden.
[00:07:29]  In 2021, an estimated 300,000 illegal aliens who arrived in the country were minors.
[00:07:34]  Nationally, the average cost of education per student in public school is around $13,100.
[00:07:43]  This means that Americans spend around $4 billion per year on educating illegal alien children.
[00:07:50]  This doesn't even take into account the extra spending that goes towards language support, counseling, parental education, and gang prevention programs.
[00:07:58]  Immigrants also put an oversized burden on the public transportation system.
[00:08:03]  Only 9% of native-born U.S. citizens use public transportation on a regular basis.
[00:08:09]  However, 25% of the immigrant population regularly uses public transportation.
[00:08:16]  In 2022, 15% of workers in the retail industry were immigrants.
[00:08:20]  It is estimated that out of the 152,396 convenience stores in the United States, over 60% of them are owned by people of Indian descent.
[00:08:31]  Over 20% of workers in the agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting industries are foreign-born residents.
[00:08:38]  In the crop production industry, a staggering 57% of workers are immigrants.
[00:08:44]  Of those workers, 54% or 31% of all crop production workers are illegal aliens.
[00:08:51]  Just in California alone, about 570,000 immigrants hold jobs in food production and distribution.
[00:08:59]  Almost 30% of all construction workers are immigrants.
[00:09:03]  In California, Texas, and Washington, D.C., over 40% of all construction workers were born outside of the United States.
[00:09:12]  The share of immigrant workers is higher in certain sectors of the industry.
[00:09:17]  Of all roofers, carpet, floor installers, painters, and paper hangers, and drywall and ceiling, towel installers, 45 to 49% of these workers are immigrants.
[00:09:30]  Immigrants are not just taking over the blue-collar industries.
[00:09:33]  Over 21% of all professional and business service workers are immigrants.
[00:09:38]  These are not just legal immigrants either.
[00:09:40]  Since 2007, the share of illegal workers in the professional industries grew by over 13%.
[00:09:47]  According to a 2015 Pew Research Center study, immigrants are 1.7 times more likely to be employed in the administrative services industry than native-born citizens.
[00:09:58]  Jobs in this industry include office management, human resources, and even reception.
[00:10:04]  At least 28% of all law firm associates come from a diverse racial and ethnic background.
[00:10:09]  38% of all accountants come from a diverse racial and ethnic background.
[00:10:15]  And over 44% of all active physicians come from a diverse racial and ethnic background.
[00:10:24]  A staggering 70% of all tech workers in Silicon Valley are immigrants, and based on industry reports, it is estimated that 21 to 28% of those workers are H-1B visa holders.
[00:10:37]  These are all jobs that Americans once held, jobs which allowed them to raise a family off of a single income.
[00:10:45]  These are jobs that made it possible for a family to buy a home, put their children through college, and take an annual vacation all on a single income.
[00:10:53]  Today, with mounting debt, rising costs of living, and a lack of high paying job opportunities, Americans are often opting out of parenthood altogether.
[00:11:04]  The American Dream was once a simple opportunity.
[00:11:07]  It was the financial stability that built the middle class.
[00:11:11]  It is what allowed couples to marry young and grow old, with four, five, or even six children.
[00:11:18]  It was the white picket fences and the growing suburbs.
[00:11:21]  It was knowing your neighbors and telling your children to be home before dark and trusting that they would be okay.
[00:11:27]  It was all of these things that defined our lives not all that long ago.
[00:11:32]  That American dream, which we all grew up believing in, was sold off to the third world, and at our expense, given to whoever could do your job for less.
[00:11:44]  Look around you.