Buck Sexton (8:51)
Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taken housing that ought by right go to American citizens. And at the same time, we weren't building enough new houses to begin with, even for the population that we had. So what we're doing is trying to make it easier to build houses, trying to make it easier to build factories and things like that so that people have good jobs. We're also getting all of those illegal aliens out of our country. And you're already seeing it start to pay some dividends. No matter what Democrats say, no matter what these civilization undermining Pro illegal alien NGOs do and say supply and demand is a real thing. It's a real thing when it comes to the labor market. It's a real thing when it comes to the housing market. It's always real, it's always operating. It's just a question of how much state interference is there, how much subterfuge is there in the market. But people need places to live, they need to pay for them. The prices are being set. And in this case here, let me get, let me give you just a particularly clear example. And this is short term housing, hotels, New York City. I'm going to be visiting my family next week in New York. It has not. People keep. I've even had people say to me like, has Mamdani ruined it yet? I'm like, well, he's not mayor yet. So we, we gotta, we gotta take a moment. You know, he comes mayor, I think a little later. But here we have New York City with its housing prices and its, which are sky high, but also which is how Mamdani of course rode this issue into the mayor's office. But then you have on top of that, the hotels in New York City hotels are. Are wildly expensive. And I know this because I'm looking at the hotel bills for next week and I'm going, oh, my gosh, hotels are wildly expensive. In New York, it was the case. I'm not sure what it is right now, but in last few years that migrants at taxpayer expense were. Were taking up 20%. 20, 20 to 25%, I think it was, of the hotel rooms in the five boroughs of New York City. That's a huge portion of it. When you take 25% off the table for those of us who are not government subsidized and not having someone else pay for it, what happens? Price goes up. More people want the same amount of goods that are there, the price goes up. So if that applies in New York City, and it most certainly does. The same way that the 30% of illegals using all hotel. I'm sorry, all, er, visits. Right. The same way that those individuals create longer waits and more expensive care for everybody else. Supply and demand. There's always a cost. There is no free lunch. I mean, some people have a free lunch, but it's not free for everybody, right? Somebody else is paying for that lunch. That's why there can't be a free lunch. Someone's paying and it's you. And many of us have become tired of how much of that is going on when it comes to illegal aliens in the millions in this country. And there's also the issue of when do we have too many illegals and when do we have too many recent arrivals for assimilation to function the way that it needs to in any society? Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida. And it's not just because I live here. Look, Governor DeSantis is a big part of why I moved here, because of what he was doing in this state. He, I think, is the best governor still in America. I'd never experienced this before, and I joke around with my family members about this. I used to just always have to tell myself, I lived in New York, all right, you know, the political leadership, although there were some good mayors. There were some good mayors, but at the state level, a lot of bozo, a lot of dumb stuff being done. I thought, all right, well, I still love New York, even if the leadership is dumb. Now I'm in Florida and I get to say, wow, this is a great state. I'm really enjoying my life here. And the leadership does smart things that they should do, and they even think of smart things to do that I hadn't thought of. That's what it is to be in a state with intelligent, conservative, realistic, sane governance. Now, you know, some of you really like Texas. You really like Tennessee. You really like whatever in red state. Governor, you have, some of you in Utah. Well, I've heard it. I've heard. I've heard some mixed reviews about how you feel about your state governance. You love your state. But I've heard. I'm just saying we have a huge Salt Lake City audience. I was out in Utah not long ago, and I heard, you know, you love Utah, but the Utah leadership, I, I hear some things a little mixed. A little mixed review. But DeSantis weighed in on the illegal immigrant issue, and here he is, and he's just saying something that needs to be said. It is possible to take in too many foreigners too quickly, and we need to be realistic about that as a country. Because at some level, a country is an idea. It is lines on a map that only can exist because there is a sense of a political nation, family of people, a bond that exists between us as Americans. It's a very complicated, really interesting thing, isn't it, the notion of this nation state, of this American family that you and I, you know, you may have grown up in Washington state, or you may have grown up in Colorado, and I grew up in New York City, and that there's something that holds us. There are things that hold us together. We have all this shared belief, all this shared sense of destiny and purpose. As Americans, we have to protect that and preserve that. It isn't just a guarantee. In fact, countries fall apart. They have civil wars, they have secession movements, they have breakages in that polity. The Greeks would have called it right in that political family. And Ron DeSantis says, look, what if you bring 10 million people into 10 million people from Somalia into Georgia? Would that be a good idea? Blake, cut 11. You have some strain on the right. This is no, no illegal. Illegal immigration is bad. Legal immigration, no matter what, is good. And wait a minute now.
