National Conservatives offer terrible economic policies, but their worst has to be the claim that deporting illegal immigrants will raise wages and reduce house prices. The Daily Signal recently published an article making that claim. Here is a sample:
"In this regard, immigration enforcement achieves two macro objectives at once: It makes America safer while also attacking the systemic affordability crisis.... The evidence is already compelling. The early economic returns on immigration enforcement are nothing short of stunning...
Thankfully, under President Donald Trump, real wages have risen every single month of his presidency...These gains result largely from at least 2.5 million illegal aliens leaving America...
Masses of illegal aliens crowd out citizens in the housing market. According to Apartment List, since Trump took office, national rent prices for Americans have actually declined by 1.4%. CNBC called the current trend “one of the more renter-friendly periods in a decade."
