{"id":64583,"date":"2026-07-07T14:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64583"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:47:02","slug":"the-extra-cost-of-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64583","title":{"rendered":"The Extra Cost Of Illegal Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday (updated Monday), <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/security\/fed-reserve-working-paper-suggests-biden-illegal-immigrant-wave-drove-home?utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1dennhbd3ej29&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawS40VtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEetRW-rcwvrnZcXTdMD9cYgNAlLOHy5iKo580eUviLwctBsZbBjHs81yCzEOk_aem_m_9Kk5XhfwzlcQme8uioBQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just the News<\/a> posted an article about a paper written by the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas about the impact of illegal immigration on employment and housing costs.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A new Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas working paper estimates the record surge in illegal immigration during the Biden administration boosted employment while causing 30% of home price increases and 20% of rent increases.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The paper combined immigration court records with government administrative data to create the first ever calculation of how a wave of 7 million illegal immigrants from 2021 through 2024 affected local labor and housing markets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;From early 2021 to early 2024, the U.S. experienced an unprecedented boom in unauthorized immigration, followed by a rapid slowdown beginning in mid-2024. We provide the first systematic empirical assessment of the labor- and housing-market effects of this episode,&#8221; the working paper said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;The total weighted-mean increases in house prices and rents over this period were 22.4% and 22.6%, respectively. Putting these together, for the average MSA, UIWF can explain approximately 30% of the total increase in house prices and 20% of the total increase in rents,&#8221; it added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>You can read the full paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasfed.org\/research\/papers\/2026\/wp2607\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their conclusions make sense&#8211;it&#8217;s an illustration of the law of supply and demand. As more people come into the country, the demand for housing increases faster than the supply, and the cost of housing increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday (updated Monday), Just the News posted an article about a paper written by the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas about the impact of illegal immigration on employment and housing costs. The article reports: A new Federal Reserve Bank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64583\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19763,19764,99,12498],"class_list":["post-64583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-federal-reserve-bank-of-dallas","tag-housing-costs","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-just-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64584,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64583\/revisions\/64584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}