Valuetainment - Mexico’s Immigration Backlash Against U.S. Remote Workers - Expats Face hostility

00:00:00.000 You know how Americans voted for immigration, like, listen, this is too many illegal people coming here, 1.00

00:00:04.300 but it looks like the economy in the U.S. is kind of pricing Americans out to the point where

00:00:08.300 Americans, expats, are moving to Mexico, Spain, and Mexicans and Spain folks are saying,

00:00:15.000 get the hell out of here. You're pricing me out. I mean, what are we doing here? Watch this.

00:00:20.260 Spain's total population is 49 million. You know how many tourists visited Spain last year?

00:00:24.900 94 million. You know what they just were required to do? They were asked to shut down 65,000 to 66,000

00:00:33.020 Airbnbs because people are like, that Airbnb used to be my house. That Airbnb used to be the apartment

00:00:39.340 I lived in. It's a big problem, but a very different type of an immigration problem.

00:00:43.900 We're going to talk about that today.

00:00:51.280 If you give Aliyah to this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel.

00:00:54.300 So watch this. You may be asking yourself, Pat, I don't really fully understand what this means.

00:00:58.220 Well, let me explain to you. Back in 2019, in America, we had roughly 7.4 million people working

00:01:06.880 from home. 2019. Do you know that 7.4, 7.5 million went up to 17.3 million in 2023 to 18.1 million.

00:01:18.100 Within four years, it increased 131% people working from home. So some of the people are like,

00:01:24.940 wait a minute. If I can get paid this $130,000 salary, this $82,000 salary, the $62,000 salary,

00:01:33.000 why am I living in San Francisco, Dallas, Miami, Fort Worth? Why am I there? What if I go live in

00:01:39.820 Mexico? Wow. That would be kind of interesting. Can I do that with the government? Give me an open-ended

00:01:45.700 visa. And then people start finding out that, wait a minute, there's 5.5 million to 9 million

00:01:51.400 U.S. citizens currently residing abroad because the U.S. government currently does not maintain

00:01:56.300 a comprehensive registry of citizens living overseas, making precise counts challenging.

00:02:02.740 So it's not like, well, listen, you want to go do your thing. You want to be back here?

00:02:06.020 They really don't care. Go live somewhere else. But that's a good thing for the person that's choosing

00:02:11.560 to go to a different place because they're saving money. But a bad thing, if they move to the city

00:02:15.620 and the people are there saying, rent used to be $500,000, $1,000. Now it's $1,800. What are you

00:02:22.620 doing? And that's becoming a problem in a lot of different countries. Specifically, in 2022,

00:02:28.720 160,000 U.S. citizens moved to one of 40 countries around the world for work, study, or family reasons.

00:02:37.400 If you look at some of the countries, you've got Mexico that has roughly 799,000 citizens

00:02:41.920 residing in Mexico, affected by its proximity, affordability, and vibrant culture. Canada's

00:02:47.100 got 273,000. UK's got 171 because they speak the same language. Germany's got 153,000. Australia's

00:02:54.460 got 117,000 expats of people living there. But I want you to see what happened on 4th of July

00:02:59.260 in Mexico City. They witnessed significant unrest protesting taking place because of gentrification

00:03:05.760 and mass tourism escalated into violence in the Roma and Condesa neighborhood. People going around

00:03:11.360 saying, get out of Mexico. Graffiti with messages that said, gringo, stop stealing our home. Appeared 1.00

00:03:17.420 on shattered storefronts. Protesters also gathered outside of the U.S. embassy demanding stricter

00:03:22.760 housing regulations and better control over tourism. So you know how we get the liberals in our state

00:03:27.420 that say, you're racist. You're xenophobic. What's wrong with these immigrants showing you? Guess what 0.74

00:03:33.040 they're saying in Mexico? This is a city government secretary, Cesar Cravioto, condemned the violence,

00:03:38.360 labeling it as what? Go ahead, say it. Xenophobic expressions and emphasizing the need for dialogue.

00:03:45.360 Let these Americans come here. The expat, it's okay if they're raising rent. What's wrong with that? 0.99

00:03:51.820 As foreign tenants earning U.S. level remote salaries flooded in, rents in these markets skyrocketed.

00:03:57.900 Some locals reported doubling or even tripling rent in the last five years. This caused many of the

00:04:04.960 long-term renters to be moved and evicted to areas that they don't want to be living in because it's

00:04:10.220 cheaper. One of the protesters, local college student Michelle Castro, told AP she has watched

00:04:15.800 the transformation of a working-class community. This is what she said. There are a lot of foreigners,

00:04:19.620 namely Americans, coming to live here. Many say xenophobia, but it's not. It's just that so many 0.99

00:04:23.740 foreigners come here. Rents are skyrocketing because of Airbnb. Rents are so high that some 0.64

00:04:27.620 people can't even pay it anymore. You see that shirt picture right there. Gringo, stop stealing

00:04:32.620 our homes. And if you don't know what the meaning of gringo is, it's not a salsa dressing. Gringo

00:04:37.600 means white folks. Like if you're white, they're talking to you saying, get out if you're in Mexico. 0.84

00:04:42.100 And remote work has created global labor mobility without matching global regulations. So imagine

00:04:47.480 I'm getting my money paid in San Francisco. I go live in Mexico. I pay my taxes in San Francisco,

00:04:57.360 take the money that I have and buy it with whatever I have in that area. I'm not even paying taxes in

00:05:01.940 there. Many times I'm not paying state taxes. Maybe I'm paying tax for VAT or whatever else they may

00:05:06.440 have, but I'm dealing with whatever I'm getting from there. Easy lifestyle. Typically when you would

00:05:11.340 see people that would move to states like countries like Mexico and other places, they would be full-on

00:05:16.260 expats, older folks, 65, seven years old, retired saying, babe, let's just go live in a nice quiet

00:05:21.960 place that other people are living in Mexico. Today, it's younger families, younger workers

00:05:26.240 for companies saying, what the hell am I doing sitting over here? Lifestyle pricing me out. I

00:05:30.700 can't live in America. I can't afford the lifestyle here. I'll just go live in Mexico with seven of my

00:05:34.740 friends. So this was Mexico we're talking about. A lot of it, right? Remember earlier I talked about

00:05:39.320 Spain. This is Spain, June or July of 2025, last month, involved creative protests like spraying

00:05:44.200 tourists with water guns in Barcelona. Think about that. Even some parts of Italy and Portugal,

00:05:49.900 protest slogans were the following. Your Airbnb was my home. Get Airbnb out of my neighborhood.

00:05:55.520 Housing is a right, not a business. Forcing Airbnb to remove 65,000 to 66,000 listings due to licensing

00:06:05.180 violations, ranging from lacking registration to misrepresenting ownership backed by court rulings

00:06:10.400 like Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Seville, and other places. And even the Barcelona mayor said

00:06:17.180 they're aiming to eliminate all short-term rental licenses by 2020, part of a broader strategy to

00:06:23.480 restore housing availability. And by the way, we think we're the only ones that are dealing with

00:06:27.140 immigration. A lot of people are dealing with immigration, but in a very different way.

00:06:30.820 They're worried about people coming in that I used to pay, you know, 20%, 30% of my income was going

00:06:35.560 to my rent. Now, 50, 60% of my income is going towards the rent. I can't, how long can I stand

00:06:39.840 it? Think about what this means to other areas in America. Miami. There's a lot of people that could

00:06:45.500 live in Miami and they're like, you know, rent is 2,500 bucks a month. I can't afford it. New York

00:06:50.460 shit show, trillion dollars moves to Miami. Now the $2,500 rent is $4,500. That guy cannot pay the $4,500. 1.00

00:06:58.300 He just got priced out by immigrants from New York coming to Florida. They're legal,

00:07:04.600 but I'm saying they're moving from New York to Florida. By the way, five years ago, I'm looking

00:07:07.980 at homes on Manalopan, 30, 40 million auto homes. Billionaires moved to Manalopan. So guess what

00:07:13.200 those 30, 40 million auto homes are right now? A hundred million auto homes. What? Who do they price

00:07:17.220 out? A lot of people that can't afford that. Obviously we're talking about a different marketplace.

00:07:21.260 This is happening at all levels around the world. However, the people overseas, not in America are

00:07:29.920 saying, Americans get out, go back home, go move to Palmdale, go move to plantation, go move to a 0.90

00:07:39.400 complete different city where rent is maybe cheaper in your area. Do not come to us. And some of the

00:07:45.020 local politicians are sitting there saying, these guys may have a good point here. We need to do

00:07:49.220 something with the Airbnb. Anyways, if you got value out of this video, give it a thumbs up

00:07:52.920 and subscribe to the channel. And if you enjoyed this video, there's another video I think you'll

00:07:56.860 enjoy. It's a housing shortage video we did of what's going on in the States. Click here to watch

00:08:01.000 it. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye, bye-bye.

Valuetainment - August 12, 2025

Mexico’s Immigration Backlash Against U.S. Remote Workers - Expats Face hostility

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