President Donald Trump’s aggressive enforcement at the border is finally paying off for the folks who need it most—the hardworking men and women scraping by in America’s heartland. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is calling it straight: those mass deportations are putting downward pressure on skyrocketing rents that hammered working- and lower-middle-class families under the previous administration.
Just look at the numbers. Last month alone, apartment rents tumbled 1.1 percent from the same period a year ago. Even better, they’re down a whopping 5.2 percent since the peak back in 2022. That’s no accident—it’s the direct result of getting tough on illegal immigration and sending people home who shouldn’t be here in the first place.
Bessent made things clear during his spot on Fox Business Channel. He laid the blame squarely on the chaos from unchecked borders and backed it up with hard facts from a fresh study out of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. That research nails the link between floods of immigrants and soaring housing costs.
“Rents are down. You know the story that the Biden administration doesn’t want to talk about: The mass unfettered immigration that pushed up rents, especially for working Americans,” Bessent stated.
He went on to drive the point home: “There’s a recent study out from [the] Wharton School that shows every one percent increase in population, rents went up one percent. So, [President Trump], by enforcing the border, sending home more than 2 million illegals, we’re now seeing … rents coming down substantially. I think that will continue for the rest of the year. We brought interest rates down, so we brought mortgage rates down, and I think everything else will follow that.”
It’s a simple equation that the elites in Washington ignored for too long—more people flooding in means more competition for limited apartments, and that jacks up prices for everyone else. But Trump’s team is flipping the script, and families are starting to breathe easier as those costs ease off.
Vice President JD Vance took the fight right to the people in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. He ripped into the hypocrisy of Democrats whining about affordability while their policies fueled the fire. Vance made it crystal clear that the explosion in housing expenses over the last four years traces straight back to Joe Biden’s open-border madness.
“I’m a little surprised by when the Democrats talk all the time about affordability. Democrats say, ‘You know, things aren’t affordable, this isn’t affordable, this has gotten more expensive, drugs have gotten more expensive, housing has gotten more expensive,’” Vance stated.
He didn’t stop there: “And you know what, they’re right. And it was because of them. It ain’t that hard. If you go back to the four years of the Biden administration, why did housing get so expensive, double in price during the Biden administration? It’s because Joe Biden let in 20 million illegal immigrants who took homes that by right go to American citizens and to the people of this great state.”
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner echoed that sentiment, slamming the idea that surging prices just happened by chance. No, he said, it’s a clear connection—Biden’s massive influx of migrants pumped up demand and left everyday folks paying the bill.
Turner’s department just dropped a bombshell investigation this month, exposing how those policies crushed low-income Americans who don’t get government handouts. The report pulls no punches on the damage done by letting millions pour across the border.
“One key cause of elevated worst-case needs is immigration. Between 2021 and 2024, the foreign-born population of the United States increased by more than 6 million—the largest such increase over such a short period in American history,” according to the HUD investigation.
It spells out the fallout: “This immigration-driven increase in households has contributed to a significant increase in housing demand, thus driving up housing prices.”
And the kicker? “In fact, in some markets, immigration has accounted for nearly all of the increase in housing demand in recent years.”
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