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Part of me feels bad for them because of all the stories of how bad it is south of the border but the other more realistic part of me knows that a large influx of immigrants like this would be catastrophic to the local housing markets wherever they end up. People cant even really afford housing these days because of how high the rates are now. \n\nFor fresh immigrants like this.... Unless they already had family in the states, they would be living on the streets instead unless they found a place to live.

Let them pass… watch them leave in three weeks when they realize there’s no place to stay. I can barely afford a $575 rent and survive on a $15.50 pay

I am descendant of Latinos, and I do not agree with this administration has caused. I met someone in a Walmart parking lot from Venezuela. He had been here in Atlanta for 10 days and didn’t know anyone. He told me he came to the US because Biden promised all Venezuelans asylum and therefore be legalized in the US. So I genuinely asked him how his country was, and he said that things were very difficult; not being able to afford basic things, so then I said “well, I’m sure that is the result of the presidents decisions, most precisely socialism/communism,” I thought he was going to agree and he said “no, our president and former president had good ideas and plans.” My point is that all of these people coming from Venezuelan are fleeing their country because of the negative situation that sadly is taking place in their country, however their mindsets have been corrupted by thinking they deserve to have “free” things. All of these ppl will be legalized and they will be able to vote very soon, so these ppl will vote democrat because they were given this opportunity by Biden. This is a very demonic man by the left, and sadly this will cause a lot negative results to the US. It’s too late to revert this, soon we will see the negative consequences of what this administration is causing to this country ?

I don't understand why they want to come to the US so badly. The average people here are struggling. You work but you still can't afford much at all. The average worker is one paycheck from being homeless or already living back with their parents.

Hey I already need 9 roommates to afford rent so guess I’ll try it with some essays! Good lord somebody set up Chris Kyle 2 miles away from the White House please

I want to run the way they came!!?? Wondering if they can afford $2,600 a month rent?? I can't I'm sure it cheaper there..

It sucks that I work myself to death and can't find affordable housing

The fact that they even tried this is actually kinda scary. We can’t afford to have these people barge into our Country. Where are they going to live?! That would be hell if a bunch of immigrants just illegally came into the country all at one time.

But, I thought Trump put the wall thingy up. . .Wait to they get here and realize we don't have affordable homes, groceries, gas, medical, etc, either.

They need to GO BACK! We cannot afford to take care of you!

I can’t even afford food here so what do they think this will do for them. You’ll have to eat trash and grass while you live under a bridge. I’m not even trying to be a dick but you can’t afford to live here anymore

I live in Toronto Canada and I’m sorry they keep letting people in , no one can afford rent, they say there’s jobs but it’s only for new comers, they get housings money and cars, it’s a sin that they don’t fix our economy first before letting 1000’s of people in , a lot of us are literally living pay check to pay check and barley surviving the immigrants are taking over..

No more immigrants, we can’t afford it. We are over crowded.

We have become the dumping grounds for the world, yet cannot even take care of our own citizens. We cannot afford to allow this any longer.

A lot of Americans are moving to Mexico because of the High rent here, which makes housing even less affordable for Mexicans

We can hardly afford to live now and our own country is making it worse. We can't feed and house all those people.

Can we even afford this as a country

They’re illegal. I understand the desire to pursue a better future for you and your family. You’ve got to go through the proper channels though. You shouldn’t be able to just walk into the country and then receive support, that most Americans don’t receive. Look at the situation with our veterans. Right now, Americans are having issue finding affordable housing. Everything’s gotten so expensive. This doesn’t help the situation.

This is just too difficult to watch. I can’t AFFORD to get another job to pay for all of these people! ?

We need it stop . It’s bringing down our country we can’t afford to take care of them anymore

It is illegal in Quebec to get a blood test! cant find a clinic to see a Doctor and can find an affordable apartment and I am never selected for the expensive one when I visit them to live in I have no choice but to rent a room at $600/month, this country is collapsing

We can't afford to have others steal our country we can barely get housing on our own we don't have enough for a bunch of aliens

Those poor people and America ?? is having problems with everything here like we need to help us so we can help them! It’s a wild world and America ?? is not even able to help our own that live and born here. Kids are starving no where to live. It took me 10 months to find a place to live that’s decent and affordable but it isn’t affordable for 2bedroom apartments at $2700-3k a month just for rent.

This is what happens when a country doesn't have a revolution. They flee. They need to fight for their own country. South America needs to be we the people. We have our own corruption. We as a country can't take care of the housing crisis, starvation, mental health issues, and crime rates. If these people come here it only adds to the issue. Our country's debt is over $30.93 Trillion. We can't afford to bring in refugees.

We have inflation , high cost if living rent , food, health care , homelessness look around , our country can not afford to have an influx of people burden what is already a burdened

We have plenty of room... But the people in power systematically prevent affordable housing from being created in favor of your standard nuclear family full family home. It keeps the property value high... redlining has always been a thing in USA.... Every sqaure inch of the country is owned by loads of white people with entirely too much free time... All they do is buy big toys and buy property they only live in once a year on vacation.

Close the border. Americans tax dollars shouldn't have to pay for refugees when they're struggling to get by themselves. People can't afford to go to college in the U.S., it's so expensive. Cost of living goes up all the time. I have multiple degrees and can't really find a job and when I do, they always want to pay very low and def much lower than they started your counterparts at. There's a ridiculous homeless issue in the U.S. where I've met plenty that apply for jobs all the time and do not get hired. They even ask random people if they can work for them just for food, literally just for food. There are people everywhere that take things for granted including the U.S. but that's not the issue here. There are U.S. leaders that steal your money in taxes and retirement funds then misuse the funds. How is it fair for a hard working individual to have 30% of their gross removed from there paycheck then still required to pay the government when filing income taxes. You can buy a house, pay it off and never own it. The government is your forever landlord because property taxes are always due and are increased whenever authorities want them increased. Every country has serious issues.

Yea why they won't over here so bad I thought Mexico was straight bro we going through enough we can't afford extra right now

Its horrible everywhere here in Canada there is no affordable housing but down the street from me they are building a skyrise where the cheapest unit will be 1.5 million

Canada is a false economy most of the money you see there wasn’t made there it was made elsewhere.\nMost of the new luxury condos being sold to offshore people trying to get heir money out of the country they live in like the Chinese Hong Kong Iranians etc.\nYou may see nice luxury cars on the road in Toronto like Bentley and Range Rovers but 9 times out of 10 they aren’t driven by old stock white Canadians they are driven by foreigners.\nYou may see Canadians that have a nice car and home but they don’t own it the banks own it they just make payments they own nothing .\nSo on the one hand Canada is flooding itself with foreign money making home prices unaffordable and inflation to sky rocket and on the other hand flooding the country with migrants from the third world that drive down the wages for ordinary middle class Canadians and cause the crime rate to sky rocket.\nLast year Canada let in 1 million new bodies half of them settling in Toronto.\n500,000 people is the population of Winnipeg yet in no way did the size of Toronto add a area the size of Winnipeg with new infrastructure hospitals and schools in 12 months .\nThen Canadians wonder why they can’t afford a home .\nOn one hand the government says we must bring in so many people because there isn’t enough workers yet got caught in their lie by bribing a European car company with 13 billion to create 3,000 jobs .\nSo the government is so desperate to create jobs they will pay 4.5 million to create one new job and other the other hand say there are too many jobs and not enough workers ?\nCanada is going into the toilet only a matter of time before there are race wars crime is unreal and Canadians just sit back and watch and do nothing.

Unfortunately we can thank Biden for this! When most of us can't even find affordable housing I wonder where all of these people are actually going to sleep? People are out in their cars their campers their vans and some are on bicycles sleeping under the stars. So I wish the migrants good luck most Americans are not happy about the situation we will see what kind of reception they get.

The illusion of a good life is really working on them, little do they know we can barely afford anything over here ourselves

This is why nobody in America can afford to live anymore. We are forced to pay outrageous prices, pay higher taxes just so we can take care of all these lazy people that want to breed like rabbits on our government’s dime

This is Just Sickening, Our Country cannot Afford to Handle anymore Illegal Aliens, Enough is Enough, What about Our Own US Citizens??????????

We love to help the world but we cannot not afford help the world and hurt ourselves. Just to much. We going through a housing problem right where are they going to go if they came in.

Yo we having a hard time here without these guys causing more havoc, we can hardly find affordable housing for our selves here as it is

And what exactly are they going to do once they’re in America? We can barely afford a living. Lol ?

Yup. The Biden admin told Venezuelans and Cubans that they are not welcomed here. Meanwhile, cartels are... I wonder why...\n\nAnd in the meantime, veterans are left without homes to allow illegal immigrants space in hotels, Americans can't afford higher education, let alone a house in many instances, and property is being bought En masse by people like Gates and companies like Blackrock...\n\nDo we even matter? Do we, the people that live here, legal immigrants, born in America, matter? Do we? CNN why don't you make that question for us?

Let me make it clear. THESE people are NOT Mexican they come from further south.. And fuck we cant even afford fucking rent..

Racist damn Democrats let them in stop being racist that is what you said to us republicans when we tried to warn you that this would happen and now look ...now we will have more illegal entry into the United States then ever before .... I am all for the United States being a melting pot and letting people from other countries immigrate to the United States but it needs to be done legally and go through the immigration process then at least we know that they have a job waiting for him then when they come here instead of coming here in the hopes of getting a job and winding up homeless. We can't afford to provide food and shelter for the homeless that we currently have. let alone the millions more that we are going to have jumping the border due to the immigration policies put in place by our current administration. We need to focus on taking care of the current homeless situation first then worry about taking care of others

Really weird how they can afford the travel. No one questions that!

My people bn here 400 plus years cant get medical care or affordable housing but we got these immigrants flooding over here and having there babies free of charge and getting low income housing, amongst other things and there not even citizens and cant even speak English, im not for it because theres no way someone could go to there country and go to the front of the line. Shameful and i dont support it at all. I went to my post office recently and they had the nerve to employ a woman who couldnt even speak english at the post office counter, wtf is goin on.

The sad thing about ppl talking about how many homeless we have as being a reason why we can’t allow legal immigration is that we have more than enough vacant housing for the entire homeless population. What we don’t have are jobs, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, and healthcare to get the homeless off the streets.

I can barley afford to feed myself but yes give the people who come here illegally my food with my hard earned tax dollars makes perfect sense

Get them out. We can’t afford this. It’s time for military and guns

I say let them in let's see if they could afford the rent and the taxes and the insurance and the gas and the food lol

Yes! Let them all in! Even though our people are dying to drugs that come from their countries! Yes! Let all the men in even though they repeatedly rape and kill our women and children with no consequence! Yes! Let them all in even though most of them will never earn a single cent though working just collecting government subsidies paid by us, the people who can barely afford to replace our own brake pads or even our cars! Yes, yes yes yes! Destroy this country! Why come in this country legally when you can just hop the border and have an achor baby then start collecting checks for doing, NOTHING!

McDonald's can't afford to employ and pay $12/hr to all of those 10year old - 12year old boys and girls

What are these poor ppl doing, dont they know its like emigranting to Germany in 1929.....its not a good idea guys, things are getting bad here, you do not want to be here when shit hits the fan, I don't want to be here but can't afford to leave.

We got our own problems right now ,we really can afford to help any one , why can they ask their own government for help