Deporting immigrants won't cheapen housing

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."

Trump channels Hoover’s economic strategies

President Trump has saved dozens of US jobs from moving to other countries, mostly Mexico, by employing the shock and awe of a personal phone call to CEOs. Had he made the same visits before he became president he likely would have failed. And let’s not discuss the numbers of jobs his policies will cost the US that go unreported.

Another Republican president used a similar style to “encourage” business to comply – Herbert Hoover. Before he scaled the political mountain to the presidency, Hoover had become famous as an organizer of humanitarian efforts. He led 500 volunteers in distributing food, clothing, steamship tickets and cash to Americans in Europe to help them get home after war broke out in Europe in 1914. Later he worked to feed starving Belgians. The Belgian city of Leuven named a prominent square after him – Hooverplein.