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#325 Sean Strickland - The Most Controversial Fighter in the UFC Opens Up Like Never Before
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Illegal Immigration Economics: The Honest Rich Man's Take
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Wearing an ICE hat to a therapy appointment, Strickland explains his genuine economic position on illegal immigration to a liberal therapist: as a rich investor, he benefits in four concrete ways — lower wages for blue-collar workers (his labor costs go down), higher housing demand (he owns rental properties), increased consumption (illegal immigrants buy products from companies he holds stock in), and a larger workforce competing with his children's future competitors. He explicitly says any honest rich Republican should admit the same. Then he flips to the other side: for the average American family making $60,000 a year, illegal immigration saturates their job market, drives up housing costs, and makes their life measurably harder. It's a pure wealth transfer from working people to the wealthy.
Strickland argues illegal immigration is a pure wealth transfer upward: it lowers blue-collar wages, increases demand for housing investors own, grows consumption for big companies investors hold. Rich people love it. Working Americans pay for it with compressed wages and saturated housing markets. He says any honest Republican investor should admit they benefit financially from open borders.
