The Ben Shapiro Show - June 29, 2026


America’s Immigration Debate Boils Over

Topics
controversy over immigration illegal immigration effects
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Ben Shapiro
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Bill Maher Pure Talk Biden Mark Wayne Mullen Bernie Sanders Clint Romache Jake Tapper JD Vance Medal
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8 minutes

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191.51

Word count

1,714

Sentence count

109

Harmful content

Hate speech

11

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Bill Maher takes aim at Joe Biden on immigration. Meanwhile, controversy breaks out within the Republican Party over immigration reform. The Department of Homeland Security issues a travel advisory for Haitians in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling regarding Temporary Protective Status (TPS) status.

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00:00:00 JD Vance, vice president, appeared on Bill Maher's show, and Maher went after him on the issue of immigration.
00:00:07 We like it that you closed the border.
00:00:09 That needed to be done.
00:00:10 The people who are here, the way you treated I'm talking about your administration.
00:00:15 You weren't out there yourself, but ICE, all that too rough, too mean, too unnecessary.
00:00:22 I think you've got, I'm not telling you what to do, okay?
00:00:25 I'm just giving you some advice as a friend, okay?
00:00:27 And I'm not, I am.
00:00:29 And I'm not saying, I'm not asking you to apologize if I don't like when people do that.
00:00:33 I'm just saying, you go a long way toward getting people who are just completely shut the door to you and your ministry if you would just own that, that you guys went too far.
00:00:43 You went too far, and you should own it like you did childless cat ladies.
00:00:49 Okay, well, obviously, the vice president wasn't going to do that. 0.98
00:00:52 It will be interesting to see how Republicans handle the issue of immigration, particularly domestically, given the fact that Hispanic voters have been moving very, very strongly against the administration in virtually every poll since the election.
00:01:05 It was the radicalism of the left that drove Hispanics into the arms of the right.
00:01:09 It'll be interesting to see how the handling of domestic immigration issues has affected that in terms of the polling going forward into 2028. 0.84
00:01:17 Now, the good news for Republicans is that Democrats continue to embrace the most radical possible answers and rhetoric with regard to immigration.
00:01:25 Bernie Sanders' solution is we ought to legalize everybody.
00:01:31 And when we look at the immigration crisis in this country, we know the answer is not breaking down doors.
00:01:38 And throwing decent people out of this country.
00:01:41 It is comprehensive immigration reform and a path toward citizenship. 0.70
00:01:48 He just means amnesty, obviously.
00:01:49 So, again, if it's going to come down to too mean in the deportations versus amnesty, the American people will go with probably too mean in deportations.
00:01:57 Meanwhile, controversy breaks out inside the Republican Party over immigration.
00:02:02 The Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Mark Wayne Mullen, he was talking at length on CNN about.
00:02:11 TPS recipients from Haiti, right?
00:02:15 There was a decision by the Supreme Court late last week that decided that if, in fact, you are on TPS from Haiti, the administration can revoke that.
00:02:25 He was asked by Jake Tapper about the idea that Haiti is somehow safe.
00:02:29 And he says, well, I mean, when we have a trip, cause there's a travel advisory.
00:02:32 If you're an American, it's like whatever is the highest travel advisory.
00:02:36 We tell Americans not to go there. 0.53
00:02:37 He says, listen, we're talking about for Americans, not for Haitians.
00:02:39 It's not the greatest argument. 0.99
00:02:42 Do not travel is not for Haitians. 0.96
00:02:44 That's do not travel for the United States because they are kidnapping or trying to kidnap individuals from the United States because they feel like their family has the money to pay the ransom. 0.99
00:02:55 We have do not travel in places in Mexico or advisory warnings.
00:03:00 In fact, if you go through our website in the State Department, you'll see there's advisories to a lot of places that are vacation destinations that we have advisories on because of the real risk to Americans.
00:03:12 That doesn't mean it's a risk.
00:03:13 To the individuals that live there.
00:03:15 So that advisory is to American citizens traveling to Haiti, not Haitians going back home.
00:03:24 Yeah, that's not an amazing argument.
00:03:26 What's even worse is that Mellon then went on to talk about what should happen for Haitians on CBS.
00:03:33 Keep in mind, a lot of these individuals haven't been here 18 months.
00:03:36 They've been here 18 years.
00:03:37 Some of them have been here 20 years, 30 years. 0.84
00:03:40 They've had plenty of time to reestablish their status inside the United States. 0.62
00:03:45 They've just chose not to.
00:03:46 Then there's some that has been here.
00:03:48 Underneath the Biden administration that took advantage of an open border.
00:03:52 And those individuals didn't really come over here because they needed protective status.
00:03:55 They came over here because they were taking advantage of a weak leadership.
00:03:59 So, what we want, and the president has made this very clear those that are coming to this country legally, they need to be able to contribute to the United States, not be a burden on the taxpayers.
00:04:13 And so, we are continuing looking at our temporary protective status.
00:04:19 Those individuals that do need assistance because of the country they're in, we're always looking at them.
00:04:26 There isn't a more generous country in the world than the United States, but we don't want people to take advantage of it.
00:04:34 So he was ripped up and down for the implication that people on TPS can seek legal status.
00:04:40 Well, what he's really saying there, obviously, is if you want to come the legal way, then you can seek legal status.
00:04:44 The DHS put out a statement this morning We'll help assist you in leaving if you would like.
00:04:48 We'll buy you an airline ticket, give you 2,600 bucks to reestablish yourself someplace else.
00:04:51 If you don't want to go back to the country you came from, but you have to leave, if you choose not to, we'll pick you up and force you to leave.
00:04:57 So the administration is not backing off of any of that.
00:05:01 Very interesting sort of politics here because, yes, The United States has far too many people who have overstayed CPS.
00:05:08 And yes, the administration is correct to want to eject people who do not add to the body politic of the United States.
00:05:14 The question is how many ugly pictures Americans can stand on their TV?
00:05:17 That is always and forever the only question in American politics.
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00:06:46 You know, a lot of people are wondering why do so many people care about immigration?
00:06:49 I mean, the border is closed.
00:06:50 You hear that from Bill Maher a little bit earlier.
00:06:52 But there's a brand new Federal Reserve working paper, according to Fox News, and it finds that the record surge in illegal immigration during the Biden administration came at a cost to one of the nation's fiercest political debates, higher home prices, and also rent rates.
00:07:05 The new report says that basically the gigantic wave of illegal migration.
00:07:10 Meant a shortage in housing supply, which again is not a gigantic shock.
00:07:14 Over time, obviously, you'll have more houses built, but when you have people who are filling homes and they're not here legally, that is higher demand and same supply, that means higher prices. 0.58
00:07:23 The researchers found that illegal immigrant worker inflows increased local employment approximately one for one, meaning a 1% increase in unauthorized workers relative to a local area's workforce, corresponded with a roughly 1% increase in overall employment. 0.60
00:07:36 So they say that it increased employment and that it lowered average wages.
00:07:41 They found no evidence the immigration surge lowered average wages.
00:07:45 However, that meant increasing housing demand.
00:07:47 Again, none of that is particularly surprising.
00:07:49 People came in, they filled jobs, more jobs were created, fine.
00:07:52 But it also meant that you were adding a bunch of people who are seeking housing to the nation's crowd of people seeking housing.
00:08:00 So local home prices were up by about 2.2%, rents by roughly 1.4%, and new housing construction lagged.
00:08:09 So, again, there are a lot of kind of spillover effects to immigration.
00:08:12 Obviously, some are cultural.
00:08:13 That's what a lot of people are worried about with regard to, say, Haitian migration or Somali migration.
00:08:17 Some of those spillover effects are economic in terms of welfare dependency and reliance on government funding.
00:08:22 And some just come in terms of Additional demand for a product like housing that is already in short supply, or additional demand for health care that is in short supply.
00:08:33 This Federal Reserve study, again, lends some credence to the idea that illegal immigration tends to drive up rents and tends also to drive down housing supply.
00:08:41 Again, none of that is particularly shocking, but it's another reason why affordability is, in fact, in some ways tied to illegal immigration.
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