US Vice President JD Vance has said a large share of America’s social problems would ease if people in the country illegally were removed.
“A lot of the problems that exist in American society would be solved, not all of them, […] just by deporting illegal aliens. Lower housing prices, lower rent, lower violent crime.”
Vance highlighted that one of the reasons the US currently has a historically low murder rate, next to supporting law enforcement, is that the Trump administration has deported many violent criminals out of the country.
He went on to answer claims that there was little economic support for deporting people who compete with Americans for homes. He said it was basic supply and demand.
He added that there was a lot of economic evidence on the issue, both in the US and abroad.
“Our own Federal Reserve had done an economic analysis and said ‘Well, if you get rid of all these people, who are competing against Americans for homes, then it will cause home prices to go down.'”
Vance continued highlighting that deporting people who are competing against US citizens for jobs would lead to wages going up for middle-class Americans.
“Both of these things are obviously a consequence of supply and demand.”
He said it was fascinating to see how people in power had been blind to this and had ignored the upward pressure on house prices that adding one million people to a single state would bring.
“You have to be economically blind to not see that, unfortunately, that’s true for a lot of our leadership”.
The official vice-presidential account posted the line on September 29 from an interview with Vince Coglianese on The Vince Show, carried on Rumble at 8am Eastern and on radio later the same day.
VP Vance on the impact of deporting illegal aliens:
"A lot of the problems that exist in American society would be solved…just by deporting illegal aliens. Lower housing prices, lower rent, lower violent crime." pic.twitter.com/xzaUQRzJi9
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) September 29, 2026
In the same sitting he repeated the administration’s legal frame, stating that illegal entry is a crime.
Anyone unlawfully in the US is subject to deportation.
Officers with one slot in a day will take a violent offender first, which is a matter of scarce agents, not a change of policy.
Vance put removals, including people who left on their own, at more than three million in about 18 months.
The US Vice President has pointed out the effects of illegal migration for a time now.
In July he tied a fall in prices to the halt in border crossings and cited a Federal Reserve paper that linked the Biden-era surge to higher home values and rents.
US housing secretary Scott Turner has pointed to several months of falling rents after a period of zero releases into the interior.
Among the 20 largest metro areas, those with the most illegal residents saw the sharpest rent drops over a year, with the exceptions in sanctuary cities.
Highlighting these facts remains largely taboo in Europe, where migration, crime and cost data are rarely broken down by nationality or residence status.
A right-leaning news outlet in Belgium, 21News, violated journalistic ethics by publishing the complete transcript of the speech made by US Vice-President J D Vance at the Munich Security Conference in 2025, the French-speaking ethics commission ruled. https://t.co/7d848mtgi3
— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) March 5, 2026
