In his address to the National League of Cities’ Congressional City Conference in Washington, D.C., Vice President JD Vance dealt with an interruption by a heckler.
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00:00because of their laws and regulations, they've seen a massive increase in the number of people
00:05who have come into their country. You go to the United Kingdom, you go across the world,
00:09and you see a very consistent relationship between a massive increase in immigration
00:18and a massive increase in housing prices. And we have to be honest about that.
00:24I see one of our nice representatives out here wants to actually, I guess,
00:34continue to flood the country with illegal immigrants, making your communities and citizens
00:39unaffordable. But ma'am, with all respect, one of the reasons why we're doing what we're doing
00:49is because we want to make it more affordable for Americans to live. That is one of the reasons why
00:56we're doing what we're doing. Now, last week, I visited the southern border and we decided to
01:02check in on what's going on there at the southern border. And of course, like I said earlier,
01:07you often hear about immigration enforcement as about crime and about drug trafficking,
01:12and that is a big part of it. I was at Eagle Pass and I was talking to local border control