The Free-Market Case Against Mass Low-Skill Immigration

I got tired of waiting for someone on the right to make the actual argument. This is a bonus episode. I am going to do longer videos on race and immigration. Those take time. The country does not have an unlimited amount of it, so this one comes first. If you missed it: after Texas beat Ohio State on September 12, 2026, UT Athletics posted a crowd clip. Bo French put a still on X with a caption about what UT graduation looks like. It got tens of millions of views. The left did what the left does. The right immediately started eating itself and missed the point. Bo is running for Texas Railroad Commissioner. That office cannot deport anybody. The post still landed in the powder keg because the immigration crisis was already there waiting to explode. I am not spending this video on his follow-up posts. I am spending it on what conservatives keep dodging: the free market and how it relates to immigration. A market rations what is scarce by bidding. Steel goes to the factory that can pull more value out of the ton. Labor and housing work the same way, except politicians treat both like gimme machines. Mass low-skill immigration is a shock to those two markets. Employers do not like bidding each other up. “Labor shortage” usually means shortage at the wage they want to pay. Raise the wage and people come off the couch, out of retirement, out of school, or down the competence ladder because the money now makes the job rational. Import a large low-skill supply and you fill the bottom of the wage scale and the bottom of the housing stock. The people already on that rung get bumped. Some take worse pay or worse hours. Some leave the workforce. Some offer a worse deal to compete one rung up. Credentials still wall off the top in the short run. The top doesn't get off free though. Housing, schools, hospitals, taxes, and congestion do not wait for Pedro to become a surgeon. They get more expensive right away. Some defend the immigrants because they have jobs. Unfortunately, earning a paycheck is not a surplus. A household can work and still take more out of schools, medicine, and transfer payments than it puts in. No welfare state, and the people already here eventually get priced into output or they leave. That is not the country we have though. The US we currently live in is a massive welfare state with an slightly free market attached to it. So the tradeoff is not mysterious. Employers, tight-city landowners, and the immigrants cash in. Natives in the shocked labor and housing markets, plus everyone on the hook for the fiscal remainder, pay. Assimilation, crime, scams, and parallel enclaves belong on the invoice. They are not a substitute for the market based argument I'm making here today. If you're interested in fixing this, here are some useful moves, not vibes: end DEI. End the welfare that lets a household consume this country without covering the cost. Vote for people who will close the border, enforce illegal labor laws, and shut the asylum mill. If you control a corner, stop running it like a gimme machine. I'll get around to a longer series sometime later. This was the market piece that should have existed last week. Where do you think merited immigration ends and the shock begins. Comments. #Immigration #LaborMarket #Housing #FreeMarket #BoFrench