Jesse Watters blames immigration for “pretty much every problem we're having in this country right now”
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Citation From the August 28, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Five
JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): Judge, you can tie illegal immigration to pretty much every problem we're having in this country right now.
JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): Yes, with respect to housing and inflation and crime and a lot of things. Look, in 2023, California had a law -- or a program, I should say -- "California Dream for All." And they decided that they were going to give money to first-time homeowners. They ran out of $300 million for first-time homeowners who were legal. The program just ran out of money. Now they want to give $150,000 to illegals. And they say you cannot be disqualified solely on the basis of the applicants' immigration status, and they repeat, regardless of the immigration status, that is part of the law.
So, when they say do you pay taxes? What taxes? When you go to the supermarket do you pay taxes on your cleaning products? Yeah. If you have a Social Security number, what does that mean? Does that mean that you're paying taxes? Plus do we want a redo of the 2008 problem where we were giving people homes who didn't have the ability to be able to support the mortgage on those homes, and then we start all over again while legal Californians, veterans, and other people can't get the money, why are we putting illegals ahead of Americans? I'm done with it.
WATTERS: America first.