JD vs NEW YORK TIMES

Oct 12, 2024
NYT reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro sits in silence as JD Vance educates her on the labor force participation rate relating to illegal immigration.

Garcia-Navarro tried arguing that illegal immigrants can't be deported because America needs them for jobs.
She pointed to the unemployment rate to back up her claim but was immediately shot down by Vance.

"The unemployment rate does not count labor force participation dropouts."

"This is one of the really deranged things that I think illegal immigration does to our society, is it gets us in a mindset of saying, 'we can only build houses with illegal immigrants.'"

"We have 7 million men, not even women, just men who have completely dropped out of the labor force."

"Sometimes people who may be struggling with addiction or trauma, need to get reengaged in American society."

"We cannot have an entire American business community that is giving up on American workers and then importing millions of illegal laborers. That is what we have thanks to Kamala Harris' border policies. I think it's one of the biggest drivers of inequality."

"It's one of the biggest reasons why we have millions of people who've dropped out of the labor force. Why try to reengage an American citizen in a good job if you can just import somebody from Central America who's gonna work under the table for poverty wages?"

"It is a disgrace and it has led to the evisceration of the American Middle class."