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i talked to some Mexican construction workers who are building my parents' retirement home there. what i make in 1 day takes them weeks, almost a month to make. i asked why don't they apply for a visa. they can't afford it and said the wait could be around 11 years and even then, visa workers are corrupt and help their friends or those who bribe them first. it's a shit situation for everyone. i'm lucky to have been born on the U.S. side of the border. it is what it is.

How is this happening how are we allowing an invasion of our nation as American citizens can’t afford housing healthcare food fuel. WTF is going on

We can't afford to eat healthy. Making our lives shorter. What's the point of anything. We are already screwed. Being American means nothing anymore

Americans can't afford the taxes let alone housing for our American people -\nSend everyone back who came illegally

WE DONT WANT THEM HERE, WE CANT AFFORD TO HOUSE AND FEED ALL OF THESE WORKING AGED MEN!

These people come and demand free housing,medical care,food etc...I work and barely make ends meet can't even afford medical coverage for my family.

We can't afford this anymore. We can barely afford groceries but they get everything for free.

Here's the rub. The CIA messed that country up. Should be no need for them to seek asylum. They are NOT the problem. The super rich are.\nOne commenter on here said we can't afford housing ourselves. Is that the newcomers fault? Or the millionaires buying up property & raising rents so they can become billionaires?\nI'd say the billionaires.

Meanwhile in Canada, Toronto has become a tent city while refugees are housed in hotels and then public housing. \nI have always been a supporter of immigration and refugee asylum but it's becoming obvious even to people like me that we can no longer afford to bring in more people who sadly will continue to just drain our system until it collapses. \nThe average person is barely keeping their head above water with rent and food prices. There comes a point when you have to acknowledge that your cup is empty and there is nothing left to give.

Finish Trumps wall and call in AZ, CA and TX National Guards. We can’t afford to pay for all their needs and then their babies botany here are Citizens, so we’re screwed.

My husband lost his job of 20 years from Covid! We have 4 kids. Literally had to start life over. We cannot afford anything right now. I’m living in my family’s basement! The cost of living does not match the pay! We are currently trying to open a business! Please pray for my family. We are Americans! We are offered nothing. Everything just keeps rising!

ID JUST OPEN FIRE THIS IS GETTING STUPID!!! STAY IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY AND FIX IT DONT JUST LEAVE!!? LIKE WHAT!?! We don't want you right now we're all poor too and I can't even afford to live on my own working a full-time job?

if the world's government treating us as they slaves, - they should at least feed slaves and give them clothes. But now people even cannot afford to feed their families or buy them clothes. In the ancient Rome slaves didn't have such issues at all. And at least slaves were called slaves and not pretended that you are free.

Americans have enough debt, struggles and destruction going on over here. We don’t need to add any more people to the mix, they need to go back to their homeland because Americans can’t afford the people we already have here.. so from bidens pov - let’s invite the whole fucking world in and pay for them with Social Security checks. I mean what the fuck is going on in the White House?

There is housing it's just many ppl can't afford it. Rent should equal 1 weeks pay. Why even make a minimum wage if it's not used right?

Unless I can afford more people in a way that’s humane I will not open my doors to anybody period. Especially without knowing who they are first. It’s common sense. Close the border. Allow access to people who pass through some sort of humane quality system.

By all means run in and live in tents with the homeless ? you won't be able to afford anything.

I am an American and I have a difficult time finding affordable housing myself

Close the fucking border. American citizens can’t even afford housing we don’t need any more fucking mouths to feed in this country. Get out

crazy as hell most of these people trying to get into America more than half of the people that have lived and worked here their whole life are living in Mexico after retirement thinking about going there myself can't afford to live here

This is nothing short of an INVASION AT OUR BORDERS!! I can guarantee you that if we had responsible voting laws in this country just as simple as having an ID and proving American Citizenship, we wouldn’t be having this problem. Democrats don’t want those laws, and Democrats DONT WANT TO STOP what’s going on at the border, bcuz these are votes for them. The most utterly ridiculous myth about voter ID laws is that they’re racist due to low income families not being able to afford them. ANYONE with common sense knows that BULL$Hit, bcuz literally every state in the US has programs that’ll provide FREE IDs and help to get there. It’s time to stop blaming the government, and start blaming those that are the cause of this, the VOTERS that put the POSs in office. The Fentanyl epidemic and the blood of those that have lost their lives, is on the hands of the same VOTERS. Time to focus and rally against the ones that are the REAL reason for all of this. In fact, let the numbers tell you what changed. Look at the #s before 1/21 and now. People may lie, but the numbers never do!

That lady obviously thought all she had to do was say, Venezuela and she would be let into the US. Enough immigration. It should all come to a halt for at least the next 10 years. Biden and his Puppet Masters are responsible for this mess! Biden is not only letting them in but handing them EBT / WIC benefits as well as SSD Disability. I work as Cashier at “W” and I see it all day long. Meanwhile, American citizens, the elderly cannot afford to buy food for themselves and their pets.

something has to be done to put a stop to this. the president and his administration is doing nothing. Americans are struggling to pay bills afford food. veteran's are going homeless. God help us. we sure aren't getting any from Washington.

Times are difficult for all of us not just them. Prices keep going up and I can’t imagine what it’s like living with minimum wage. But even for those with degrees it’s hard and I myself don’t have family, why have kids if you know you can’t afford them I can’t understand that.

We-Americans CANNOT even afford to do anything with our Homeless Vets, Nor Our Forever Growing Homeless Population to begin with! .. Thus How can we afford Bombers full of unchecked Immigrants & Open Borders?? This is insanity !! .. z Priority must be to House our Vets 1st, clean up our Homeless tent camps, then think about others !! This is counter intuitive ! We do not need MORE Massive amounts of Homeless ! Where do they plan to go? Work? Live? Sleep? & Eat?? Who starts these brigade's of immigrants?? It must be the govt who loves the votes ! I can see it & I'm not even political in the least!

plenty of housing, but nobody can afford it because America is ran by greedy devils

This is dangerous they are still building in Texas is because people are coming and moving here from all over but they can't afford to house all these people my heart really goes out to them.

There's not even homes or enough space for Americans have u not seen how much is pretty much homeless or living with family cuz we can't afford to live alone bruh they need to do something about this if it was Americans doing this we'd all be held responsible

Simple fix is to place actual military bases all along the border as well as a naval command in the gulf. The visual alone is a great deterrent. We can afford it because Ukraine told me so.?

This is infuriating!!! We can’t afford anything ourselves and they want to take our resources. I hope Texas men step up and defend the border!!!

This makes me mad because other than the true American Indians we are all immigrants from generations back. Can we afford everyone no but do we or have we a right to do this no. I don't have the answers for how to help them but I don't think this is the best way. Have them line up in several lines and if they are not criminals from there home then we should tell them that we have no work or much food and they will be what we call homeless but let's not forget that we haven't always lived in houses with running water and electricity and cooked outside. My grandmother and my dad and mom all went through the great depression my dad and mom were children and all they had to eat was lard sandwiches. I will pray for God's will to be done here and every where

If they can afford to be smuggled in multiple times, they can afford to immigrate legally. Every illegal is a slap to the face of the ones that legitimately became citizens and worked for it.

What I don't understand is ...\nWhy they don't stay in thare own country and overthrow there government and make it better instead of coming to Our country and destroying what little we have left ...\nThat's what's gonna happen. \nWe are all ready pushed to our max. \nWe can't afford the people we got now ...\nI mean who the hell is gonna support them ... We Are that's who ..\nVenezuela chose socialism so they created this monster and now they can't live with it ... \nWhy don't thare citizens take all that energy and anger out on THARE government ?????

What they don’t realize is that if the US where to let everyone in then in the end all they did was just choose a didn’t different location to suffer in bc at certain point the us will not be able to afford to sustain all these ppl

We can't afford to take care of them go back!

The working class can't afford to pay for everything.

The problem is that every country spend so much money on military thst they can’t afford to feed the ppl!\nThe world is f up ! We are believe in God and will die for religion but we can’t change the govt! The priest will allow the govt to go to war! God u there?\nPriests u there ?

To all the people in the comments upset with poor, desperate, people with no power instead of the American government that has undoubtedly destabilized these countries to the point where their citizens are fleeing to other countries…know that you are angry with the wrong people!\n\nThese people just want better lives for their families! That should cause everyone to question why they want to leave? Is there something we can do to support change in their countries so they don’t want to leave? Can we advocate for that in our politics? Is there something we can do to make housing more affordable? There isn’t a housing shortage, we have 600,000 homeless with millions of vacant homes! Can we advocate for the rights of people over giant real estate companies like Blackstone gobbling up houses and apartments, making them unaffordable before we scream that there aren’t houses for these people?!\n\nThe complete lack of effort around finding a solution is mind blowing to me! Everyone just resorts to basically saying they should all be kicked out!! Why can’t we find a solution? I just don’t get why this is such a controversial issue! Kicking them out or criminalizing them is just sweeping the issue under the rug. It doesn’t solve the problem, meaning after a while they will come back and we will be right back where we started. \n\nI guess I just feel like there should be a little more compassion and problem solving when talking about immigration!

American youth can’t afford housing let alone accommodation for millions of more people to come in

Martha's has had ample time to build housing and collectively can afford much more. Send them there. Enrich the local culture with diversity.

WE ARE BEING INVADED!!!! WE CANT AFFORD ANY MORE PEOPLE!?!

Thank you Biden the US cannot accommodate these people we cannot afford them you’re killing us

And now they get in and apply for all this shit that we as tax payers fund. People cant even afford an apartment where tf do they think they are going?

I can’t find a decent job or and affordable place to live, now these non-Americans who are entering illegally will be garunteed affordable housing and jobs getting paid under the table as well as government assistance

Bro i been eating ramen an eggs, workin constantly and i STILL barely afford rent and important expenses, no fckin way im payin more taxes bc these mfs think they deserve to barge in like my dad after 23yrs. Aint gonna happen bnrs

Why would they want to come here? No papers, illegal, and people can barely afford to feed there families here anyways?

Joe Biden and the Democrats once a reason this is happening who is going to pay for these people why taxes are high enough I can't afford to keep giving more and more taxes so I can feed and house f****** illegal immigrants better in my country illegally

We have the same problem here in England . We do t want them here anymore as we can not afford them, and they need to all go home. It is sad to see, but they need to go back home. It's not going g to stop unless America puts a huge electricity trick fence up.

There's already not enough housing as it is! We can't afford it. This is getting ridiculous.

How is not a threat to national security. More needs to be done. Bring in the national guard to assist border patrol. Force needs to be met with force lint blank period. I struggle to know where my next meal is coming from with the wages we make we can’t afford anything with all the inflation. Then these people come in and get housing and food stamps while Americans suffer.