Biden-Harris opened the borders. Americans still pay the disastrous price.
New evidence from the Federal Reserve lays it out plainly.
Joseph Ford Cotto | July 7, 2026 www.americanthinker.com
The Biden-Harris administration unleashed a flood of illegal immigration that shattered the dreams of countless Americans.
From early 2021 to early 2024, roughly seven million illegals entered the country. That is nearly double the flow of legal immigration and a scale never seen before in modern times. This was no accident of circumstance. It was the direct result of deliberate Democrat choices that opened the border and encouraged mass illegal crossings. The consequences hit Americans where it hurts most: in their wallets, their houses, and their hopes for the future.
New evidence from the Federal Reserve lays it out plainly.
Using detailed administrative records on individual immigrants and smart comparisons across local markets, the Fed shows that these illegal worker inflows acted like a hammer on housing. For every one-percent increase in local employment from these flows, house prices rose 2.2 percent and rents climbed 1.4 percent during the surge years.
On average, this surge explained about 30 percent of America’s run-up in home prices and 20 percent of the jump in rents.
Think about what that means in real life. A young couple saving for a starter house saw prices explode beyond hope of affordability. Renters watched their monthly bills climb to mortifying heights. This is not social media chatter. It is the difference between affording a place of your own and staying stuck in your parents’ basement.
The Biden-Harris real estate inflation is why many young Americans delayed marriage, put off having children, or gave up on building wealth altogether. Homeownership has always been the bedrock of the American middle class. The blue experiment stole that ladder from beneath the feet of millions.
The damage went deeper.
By flooding labor markets and driving up demand for scarce housing without adding meaningful supply, Democrats supercharged broader inflation. Groceries, gas, and everyday costs soared as communities absorbed the illegal alien spike. Welfare per capita actually fell in devastated areas. As an area’s population grew rapidly, the government’s total aid budget did not increase to match that growth.
Families lost ground in dollars and cents that no slogan about “compassion” can replace. The working and middle classes paid the price while “public servants” cheered America’s decline from a safe distance.
President Donald J. Trump’s team moved swiftly after taking office.
Immigration law enforcement tightened, net illegal immigration turned negative, and the pressure eased. Rents have fallen sharply in major metros. They are down 21.5 percent in Austin, 13.8 percent in Phoenix, and 4.4 percent nationally from Biden-Harris-era peaks. Home list prices dropped in most of the top metro areas with large illegal populations, with declines as steep as 7.3 percent in Austin.
Native-born Americans gained two million jobs in 2025 while foreign-born employment declined. Real wages for blue-collar workers rose at the fastest pace in decades.
These improvements are real and welcome. Yet they cannot erase several years of needless pain. The housing supply did not magically expand during the illegal surge. Construction could not keep pace with the demand shock. Prices and rents ratcheted higher and locked in exorbitant costs for mortgages, leases, and local taxes.
Young people who missed the window for affordable entry into homeownership or family formation lost irreplaceable time. The wealth gap widened, without creating broad-based economic opportunity. This was political fuel for third-worldist communism, masquerading as democratic socialism, which now storms the blue party. Entire communities absorbed strains on schools, hospitals, and public services that will take years to unwind. At best.
No amount of Trump-era progress undoes the hideous, lasting damage inflicted by the open-borders Biden-Harris experiment.
This is not theory. It is cold economic reality documented in administrative microdata and felt in budgets from sea to shining sea. The Democrats engineered a crisis that robbed America of stability and opportunity. They prioritized illegal aliens over citizens. The bill came due in higher prices, deferred dreams, and lost hope. Trump’s administration has delivered measurable relief by simply enforcing immigration law, but the deeper wounds remain.
Every Republican voter, indeed every American who values a secure future, should recognize what is at stake this autumn in the midterms.
The choice is between policies that put citizens first and those that repeat the recent past's catastrophic blue errors. Voting is not abstract. It is the tool that protects your housing costs, your wages, your children's prospects, and the material foundation of American life.
The facts leave no room for excuses. The damage was immense, the reversal is partial, and the lesson is unmistakable: secure borders and enforced immigration laws are non-negotiable for restoring the promise of prosperity. This fall, each GOP voter should show up and cast a ballot to reject any return of the blue policies that mauled the American dream.
The future, measured in home prices, rents, and personal fulfillment, depends on it.
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