Illegal immigrants in the U.S. are on the rise, and so are the crimes they commit. Teresa Winter joins us live on why everyone s immigration status is being called into question. The illegal immigrant suspected in the killing of Georgia college student Lakin Riley is now asking to suppress multiple pieces of evidence ahead of the trial. Two Venezuelan migrants are under arrest in Houston, charged with murdering 12-year-old Jocelyn Hungarai.
00:00:01.000Border arrests have soared to an all-time high.
00:00:04.000According to the new data from Customs and Border Protection, 1.7 million migrants have been arrested along the U.S.-Mexico border in the last fiscal year.
00:00:13.000Raped and beaten to death on a hiking trail to the suspect.
00:00:20.000Investigators say he used a rifle to kill five people, including a nine-year-old boy.
00:00:25.000Teresa Winter joins us live with more on why everyone's immigration status is being called into question.
00:00:31.000The illegal immigrant suspected in the killing of Georgia College student Lakin Riley is now asking to suppress multiple pieces of evidence ahead of the trial.
00:00:40.000Two Venezuelan migrants are under arrest in Houston, charged with murdering 12-year-old Jocelyn Hungarai.
00:00:46.000Authorities connecting Mexico's infamous Sinaloa drug cartel to an underground Chinese banking group in Southern California.
00:00:54.000They've had to send in counselors to talk to her kids.
00:02:41.000The homelessness rate wasn't even tracked, as it was too low to calculate.
00:02:47.000In 2023, the median personal income was $42,000, and the average sales price of a home was $495,000, over 10 times as much as an average American income.
00:03:01.000The average monthly cost of food ranged from $1,000 to $1,500 and the average cost of a gallon of gas grew to $3.49.
00:03:10.000The inflation rate was 4.1% and the homeless population skyrocketed to 653,000 people.
00:03:21.000Americans today, especially the younger generations, know nothing of the economic prosperity that once defined the American dream.
00:03:32.000Being able to build a family, buy a house while you're young, and put your kids through college all on one income is completely beyond the grasp of the average American today.
00:03:44.000In 2023, 66% of families were dual income households, and by the early 2010s, about half of U.S. college students were burdened with an average of $25,000 in loan debt.
00:03:58.000Since 1950, not only has personal debt, homelessness, general disparity, and the cost of a home increased dramatically, but surprisingly, the productivity of the American worker has increased by 254%.
00:04:12.000Americans are working harder and getting less.
00:04:16.000If Americans are producing more value than in previous decades, why is it harder than ever to live a comfortable life?
00:04:24.000In 2023, about one in every six jobs was occupied by an immigrant or a visa holder.
00:04:30.000In any labor market, as the supply of available labor increases, wages decrease.
00:04:36.000However, the income of newly arrived immigrants is estimated to be 17% lower than the income of native foreign Americans.
00:04:44.000These immigrants are willing to work for less, which drives wages down even further.
00:04:49.000Also, when an employer hires an illegal alien, they must be hired off the books, which provides employers several incentives for hiring illegal immigrants.
00:04:58.000Employers do not have to pay illegal aliens a minimum wage.
00:05:02.000They don't have to provide them benefits like health care and retirement.
00:05:06.000They don't have to give them vacation or workers' comp.
00:05:09.000If you ran a business, why wouldn't you hire illegals?
00:05:14.000The typical American loses 27-30% of their paycheck to taxes.
00:05:19.000If you go to any city in America, everything is dirty.
00:05:23.000The parks are overrun with homeless people, police aren't doing their job, and people are being murdered on public transportation.
00:05:33.000Governor Gavin Newsom Tuesday signing a measure to provide health care to low-income undocumented immigrants.
00:05:40.000President Trump opposes those subsidies and says U.S. citizens come first.
00:05:44.000There's no evidence that bringing people into this country makes the rest of us richer.
00:05:48.000How can we afford to give billions of dollars to illegal immigrants in this country, but we've got to go back to the well to provide for our own citizens?
00:06:06.000In 2023, $3.8 trillion, or 60% of the federal budget, was spent on entitlement programs.
00:06:13.000$1.1 trillion was spent on welfare programs alone.
00:06:19.000A 2018 study by the Center for Immigration Studies found that 63% of non-citizen households are the beneficiary of at least one welfare program.
00:06:29.000For comparison, only 35% of Native-born American households are on welfare.
00:06:35.000I approached yesterday by a non-speaking, a non-English-speaking member of the community now, one of our new residents, that apparently purchased my home.
00:06:54.000By someone that can't speak my language and doesn't know the law and doesn't know the rules.
00:07:00.000But I want to know where the resources are for us.
00:07:03.000I had to take a pay cut of a fourth of what I made.
00:07:08.000And now on top of that, I'm being asked to leave my home by someone that can't communicate this to me.
00:07:15.000We're getting pushed out of this community.
00:07:19.000While almost twice as many non-citizen U.S. residents per capita are on welfare, U.S. citizens are responsible for around 85% of the tax burden.
00:07:29.000In 2021, an estimated 300,000 illegal aliens who arrived in the country were minors.
00:07:34.000Nationally, the average cost of education per student in public school is around $13,100.
00:07:43.000This means that Americans spend around $4 billion per year on educating illegal alien children.
00:07:50.000This doesn't even take into account the extra spending that goes towards language support, counseling, parental education, and gang prevention programs.
00:07:58.000Immigrants also put an oversized burden on the public transportation system.
00:08:03.000Only 9% of native-born U.S. citizens use public transportation on a regular basis.
00:08:09.000However, 25% of the immigrant population regularly uses public transportation.
00:08:16.000In 2022, 15% of workers in the retail industry were immigrants.
00:08:20.000It is estimated that out of the 152,396 convenience stores in the United States, over 60% of them are owned by people of Indian descent.
00:08:31.000Over 20% of workers in the agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting industries are foreign-born residents.
00:08:38.000In the crop production industry, a staggering 57% of workers are immigrants.
00:08:44.000Of those workers, 54% or 31% of all crop production workers are illegal aliens.
00:08:51.000Just in California alone, about 570,000 immigrants hold jobs in food production and distribution.
00:08:59.000Almost 30% of all construction workers are immigrants.
00:09:03.000In California, Texas, and Washington, D.C., over 40% of all construction workers were born outside of the United States.
00:09:12.000The share of immigrant workers is higher in certain sectors of the industry.
00:09:17.000Of all roofers, carpet, floor installers, painters, and paper hangers, and drywall and ceiling, towel installers, 45 to 49% of these workers are immigrants.
00:09:30.000Immigrants are not just taking over the blue-collar industries.
00:09:33.000Over 21% of all professional and business service workers are immigrants.
00:09:38.000These are not just legal immigrants either.
00:09:40.000Since 2007, the share of illegal workers in the professional industries grew by over 13%.
00:09:47.000According to a 2015 Pew Research Center study, immigrants are 1.7 times more likely to be employed in the administrative services industry than native-born citizens.
00:09:58.000Jobs in this industry include office management, human resources, and even reception.
00:10:04.000At least 28% of all law firm associates come from a diverse racial and ethnic background.
00:10:09.00038% of all accountants come from a diverse racial and ethnic background.
00:10:15.000And over 44% of all active physicians come from a diverse racial and ethnic background.
00:10:24.000A staggering 70% of all tech workers in Silicon Valley are immigrants, and based on industry reports, it is estimated that 21 to 28% of those workers are H-1B visa holders.
00:10:37.000These are all jobs that Americans once held, jobs which allowed them to raise a family off of a single income.
00:10:45.000These are jobs that made it possible for a family to buy a home, put their children through college, and take an annual vacation all on a single income.
00:10:53.000Today, with mounting debt, rising costs of living, and a lack of high paying job opportunities, Americans are often opting out of parenthood altogether.
00:11:04.000The American Dream was once a simple opportunity.
00:11:07.000It was the financial stability that built the middle class.
00:11:11.000It is what allowed couples to marry young and grow old, with four, five, or even six children.
00:11:18.000It was the white picket fences and the growing suburbs.
00:11:21.000It was knowing your neighbors and telling your children to be home before dark and trusting that they would be okay.
00:11:27.000It was all of these things that defined our lives not all that long ago.
00:11:32.000That American dream, which we all grew up believing in, was sold off to the third world, and at our expense, given to whoever could do your job for less.