Jingo!

Vance: if you bring in millions and millions of illegal aliens, you got to put them somewhere . And when you give them houses that ought go by right to American citizens, that’s going to increase the cost of housing. pic.twitter.com/eNOXxHMdRk

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 24, 2026

I live in a border state, and relatively close to the border. I (used to) see immigrants from south of the border all the time. I know where they live, nearby.

The local school district used to have a minor problem with immigrant children who would disappear from school after 3 or 4 months. The family had to move because they couldn’t make the rent. It could take about 3 months for that situation to allow for a forcible entry and detainer (eviction suit, to you) action. 

Those people were not taking up houses. They weren’t even taking up apartments anyone else wanted to live in. Well, maybe besides the homeless squatting in abandoned apartment complexes. The apartments immigrants like Vance is talking about are living in are just above abandoned buildings, for the most part. They aren’t taking jobs washing floors and dishes and mowing lawns that rightly belong to white men, either. Frankly, how we treat them is shameful, and that comes back to ideas Vance is espousing.

What Vance is promoting here is racism and jingoism. It’s no better than the lies he told about Haitians in Ohio. He hasn’t learned any shame since then. It’s unlikely he ever will.