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Let's get into it. To understand the answer, you have to understand something most people have never thought. How illegal immigrants impact the census. How the census actually works, and how dramatically it influences political power. The U.S. constitution requires a census every 10 years. That census counts every person living in the country. Not every citizen, every person. And the results of that count determine how many seats each state gets in the House of Representatives and by extension, how many electoral college votes each state gets in presidential elections. More people in your state means more seats. More seats means more power. And it doesn't matter whether those people can vote or not according to the center for Immigration Studies. The presence of all immigrants and their US born minor children shifted the distribution of 26 House seats and 26 Electoral College votes in the 2020 Census. Of those, 17 seats were shifted by non citizens alone, people who cannot legally vote in a federal election, but whose mere physical presence in a state increases that state's political power in Washington. There's no conspiracy theory in that. It's not even a disputed fact. It's just how the census math works. Given how much power it conveys, can you not understand why states would want to get as many bodies in their state as possible, regardless of their legal status? In May of 2024, then Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was asked about all of this in a Senate hearing. The Commerce Department, by the way, oversees the census, so she was the right person to ask. Senator Haggerty asked, illegal aliens today are.

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Counted in the US Census, is that correct?

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Raimondo confirmed, yes, as required by the Constitution.

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The Senator continued, this total census population.

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Which includes illegal aliens, is then in turn used for the allocation of congressional districts and electoral votes for each state. Is that correct?

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Yes, that's the Commerce Secretary of the United States confirming on the record that people in the country illegally are counted in the census, and that count directly determines how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state receives. Politicians don't even try to hide this fact. In a 2021 House Foreign Affairs Committee briefing, Congresswoman Yvette Clark, a Democrat from Brooklyn, said, and I quote, I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes. She wasn't caught on a hot mic. She said it publicly, on camera. In an official Congressional proceeding, she was talking about absorbing Haitian migrants into her Brooklyn district, not because she had a plan to help them, but because more bodies in her district meant more political power for her. Now think about the incentive structure this creates. If you're a politician in a state with millions of non citizens, you have a structural reason to keep them there. Every noncitizen in your state is padding your power in Congress and in the Electoral College regardless of whether or not they cast a vote. But it would be even better if they could cast a vote, wouldn't it? And that's exactly why Democrats have publicly stated on the record that their plan is to find a path to citizenship for all illegal immigrants. If you don't believe me, in 2022, then Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer stood in front of the U.S. capitol and said on camera, our ultimate goal is.

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To help the dreamers but get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented there are.

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Here again, that's not a leaked memo or a slip on a hot mic. That's the most powerful Democrat in the Senate stating his ultimate goal on the record. Honestly, if you're a Democrat, it's a smart strategy if all you care about is staying in power. Data consistently shows that recent immigrants vote disproportionately for the party that welcomed them in and promised benefits. So if even half of the 11 million immigrants become citizens and start voting, you have permanently shifted the electoral math. Not for one election. Permanently. If you want an example of exactly how this plays out, look no further than California. In 1986, Ronald Reagan signed an amnesty agreement granting citizenship to nearly 3 million illegal immigrants. Before that amnesty, California voted Republican. In nine out of ten presidential elections. After it, California has not voted Republican once, not one single time in almost 40 years. Now, to be clear, this isn't about whether immigrants are good people. My wife is an immigrant. Like any group, most are awesome. Most of them came here for a better life, just like virtually everyone's ancestors did. This is about whether politicians are using them as pawns in a power game. And the answer? Based on their own words, their own votes, and the structural incentives that are baked into the system. The answer is obviously yes. That's why they won't even vote or debate on the SAVE Act. That's why they won't add a citizenship question to the census. That's why they call voter ID racist. The goal isn't to protect immigrants or voters. It's to protect their power. But sadly, grabbing power is a much smaller problem than what we have to discuss now. Namely, the true cost of immigration in a system with welfare. Because that toxic combo is destroying the middle class. The federal government added $2.2 trillion in debt in a single year. Total national debt now stands at roughly $38.5 trillion. And for the first time in American history, in annual interest payments alone are more than a trillion dollars. And that's nearly doubled in just three fiscal years. Let me put these numbers into perspective. The federal deficit for 2025 was roughly $1.8 trillion. That means the government spent 1.8 trillion more than it collected in taxes. That gap is roughly 6% of GDP, which is more than 50% above our 50 year average. And it's not going to get better. The CBO projects deficits will exceed $2 trillion a year for the next decade. Federal debt held by the public has hit 100% of GDP and is on pace to blow past the all time record of 106% set in 1946, right after we had just finished fighting a world war. So how did we get here? The same way every empire before us got here. Politicians discovered that the easiest way to win elections is to promise people free things. Programs, benefits, safety nets, tax cuts, stimulus checks. The problem is they can never collect enough taxes to pay for all of it. So they borrow the difference. And to be clear, this is not a partisan problem. Republicans cut taxes without cutting spending. Democrats increase spending without increasing taxes enough to cover it. The result is the same on either side. The gap between what the government takes in and what it spends just keeps growing year after year, regardless of who is in power. So don't think for a second that you're on the good side. We have got to solve this problem now. A crazy data point that you have to take into consideration when you're thinking through the problem of immigration. Get ready for this. It actually lowers federal deficits. Sort of. Let me explain. The Congressional Budget Office, the non partisan agency that does the math for Congress, estimates that the recent surge in immigration could actually reduce federal deficits by about $900 billion over the next 10 years. The reason? Immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, payroll taxes, sales taxes. And at the federal level, they continue to contribute more in revenue than they cost in benefits. Even if they're using fake Social Security numbers, they're still paying. But here's what that number doesn't capture. At the state level and local level, the same CBO found the exact opposite. Immigration imposed a net cost of billions of dollars a year because states bear the direct costs of education, housing, emergency services, shelter, and the like. The federal government gets the tax revenue, sure, but your city gets the bill. Now here's the trillion dollar question. Literally, if immigration lowers deficits in real life and not just in statistics, could we use immigration to solve our catastrophic debt problem? Well, over the Biden presidency, we ended up running a natural experiment. And unfortunately, our deficits have soared as we've imported an unprecedented number of immigrants. That doesn't mean that immigration has caused our debt crisis. I want to be very clear about that. But it does mean it's not going to solve it. The idea of importing infinite immigrants to flip a fiscal deficit into a surplus sounds very appealing if you just extrapolate from the average positive projected fiscal effects that appear in some studies. But it ignores real world constraints like diminishing economic returns, infrastructure limits, values, collisions, which nobody wants to talk about. Overall social integration challenges and the this one's rough. The low versus high skill composition of who immigrates, which matters more than anything else. While immigration can boost GDP and can reduce federal deficits, in the short term, the benefits aren't linear or unlimited. Pumping in endless numbers of immigrants invariably eventually creates net costs, backlash and social instability. Just look at history. Immigration expands the labor supply, which grows the economy by filling jobs, increasing productivity and raising overall output. However, beyond a certain point, it saturates markets, especially for low skilled work, leading to sharper wage drops higher unemployment for natives, particularly those without high school diplomas, and reduces pressure for businesses to raise wages or invest in productivity enhancing tech or training. In essence, economies aren't infinitely elastic. Adding workers does boost supply, but if demand, jobs and capital doesn't keep pace, you get inefficiencies like underemployment or black market labor, which we see both of right now. According to both the Manhattan Institute and National affairs, the skill level of the immigrant population matters a great deal in terms of whether they'll be an economic contributor or a net cost to the system. High skilled immigrants, for example, college educated, generate lifetime surpluses, but low skilled ones often create net drains that can be hundreds of thousands of dollars per person over 30 years. This is due to higher use of education, health and welfare programs, costs that grow exponentially as more people immigrate. Mass migration flows tend to skew low skilled as global migration pressures come from poorer regions, amplifying the burdens, we also have to confront the realities of incentives. When the richest country in the world opens its borders and promises access to infrastructure like education, health services and welfare programs, you are going to understandably attract low skilled workers who are fleeing desperate situations and will over time draw more out of the system than they contribute. And none of that is even to mention or what is likely the most damaging impact of mass immigration. The social, cultural and political limits of integrating a large number of people into a society too quickly. Rapid influxes of low skill migrants over time drains resources, strains social cohesion, leads to cultural clashes, reduced trust and political backlash. We see it over and over in history historical waves. For example here in the US in the 19th century, they succeeded partly because there were few if any social programs to draw from. So you just weren't attracting people that just wanted something on the dole. And there were built in pauses that allowed for cultural assimilation. With our current state of unbearable debt, intolerable inequality, taxation through inflation, and already skyrocketing populism, this is a time to Pause and adjust the system to focus on restabilizing our economy and society. It is not a time to create further vulnerabilities in areas like our voting system. Nor is it time to weaponize immigrants who are already being leveraged to gain political power by offering promises of mass citizenship and access to welfare programs. In the US a staggering number of people receive benefits from one social service or another. We're talking north of 50%. Some analyses show an even higher number, depending on whether you count things like federal student loans, farm subsidies, or mortgage interest deductions as government benefits. But sticking to just things like Medicaid, SNAP housing assistance, Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and the like, you've still got over 50% of Americans already receiving some kind of assistance. Our welfare state has grown absolutely massive, and importing more people with an incentive to broaden those systems even further without first balancing the budget is economic suicide for a country that is already on life support due to debt. Given all of this, if we're hell bent to use immigration as a deficit reduction strategy, fine. But it's going to require a selective immigration process that attracts skilled workers from around the world and restricts low skilled immigrants. That would almost certainly be good for the economy long term. But as discussed right now we're doing the exact opposite. We are enticing low skilled people from the most dysfunctional places on earth via a massive social safety net. And in states like California, Minnesota and New York, which bill themselves literally as sanctuaries for immigrants, lawmakers are doing their best to ensure easy access to free infrastructure such as education and healthcare, dramatically increasing the likelihood that arrivals are a net drain on finite resources. And again, if you don't believe me, just look up some of the things that California's Governor Newsom has said publicly. Additionally, we're doing little to nothing to maximize the number of high skilled immigrants who are the ones that would tend to be net contributors. Now, hopefully all of that explains how immigration can either be a positive or a negative, depending on how a country's systems are set up and how deficits can so quickly get out of control when things aren't set up well. But bodies, legal or otherwise, pad the census. Social safety nets attract bodies, amnesty paths to citizenship and yes, fraud create votes. And as California demonstrates, when you attract people with free stuff, those people tend to vote for more free stuff. Politicians refuse to pass voter ID laws because they want a system that can be exploited so they can leverage it to gain and retain power through, among other things, bad immigration policy. It's not a Conspiracy. It's a chain of incentives embedded in a system that politicians are trying to keep easy to exploit. And as game theory and reality make abundantly clear, any system that can be exploited will be exploited. The tragic irony of all of this is that even the well intentioned people who are most passionate about equality, the ones marching protest demanding the rich pay their fair share, saying that they're a sanctuary for immigrants, they are the ones voting for the very policies that make the rich richer. Every new program funded by borrowing eventually requires money printing. And every round of money printing widens the gap they're trying to close. They're going to blame capitalism and they do. But this isn't capitalism. This is what happens when a government counterfeits its own currency and calls it policy. Every empire that has ever done what we're doing with debt and money printing has collapsed. Every single one. America is not exempt from math. So what should any of us do? First, support voter id. Not because you hate immigrants, because you understand the incentive structure that's being protected by leaving the system unsecured. Second, stop voting for free stuff. I know this one is going to be hard to get people to listen to, but there is no free. There is only paid for by money printing, which is paid for by your purchasing power, which hurts the poor and middle class the most. Third, demand a balanced budget. If we balance the budget, we don't need to print money. And if we want to allocate things in a balanced budget to immigrants, we can. We just can't do it with an unbalanced budget. If we stop printing money, inflation stabilizes. If inflation stabilizes, inequality begins to narrow down everything. Everything traces back to debt, money printing and politicians insatiable appetite for power. And fourth, get into assets. I wish this weren't the reality, but your government has made it impossible to save your way to prosperity. Cash is a melting ice cream cone. You need to own things that rise when money is printed. Stocks, real estate, gold, silver, bitcoin, a business, etc. Needless to say, this is not financial advice, it's just math. Remember, some people will cheat on college admissions, homecoming crowns, fishing competitions and student elections when little to nothing is on the line. Why on earth would you think they won't cheat on national elections when there's trillions of dollars and political power on the line? 84% of Americans, Republican and Democrat support requiring an ID to vote, but the Senate won't even debate the topic. Voter ID isn't about race, it's about power. All right, that's it for today's episode. If you got value out of this, it would mean the world to me if you would go give us a five star rating. It helps more than you know. All right. Thank you. And until next time, my friends. Be legendary. Take care. Peace.