Opinion: Why JD Vance’s Latest Immigration Claim Is Just Plain Wrong
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JD Vance spoke this week about how the influx of migrants to Springfield, Ohio, has impacted the city’s prosperity. The one problem: he got it wrong.
“If the path to prosperity was flooding your nation with low wage immigrants, then Springfield, Ohio, would be the most prosperous country in the prosperous city in the world,” Vance said. “What’s actually happened is that over the past three-and-a-half years, while we’ve had this massive influx of illegal labor, what’s happened is we’ve had skyrocketing inflation, lower take home pay, Americans more dissatisfied with direction of the country and the economy than they’ve been in a generation. This is not the path to prosperity no matter how much a Wall Street bank says that it is.”