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Ted Cruz: “President Trump, by enforcing the border and sending home…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Deportations Cure Rent Inflation, When We Have No Evidence meets Do It Anyway plus the Final 3 Hi...

Published | Video Starts at 04:13

And he continued to say there's a recent study out from the Wharton School that shows every 1% increase in population rents went up 1%. So President Trump, by enforcing the border and sending home more than 2 million illegals, we're now seeing rents coming down substantially. I think that will continue for the rest of the year. We brought down interest rates, and so we brought mortgage rates down. And I think everything else will follow that. (04:13–04:23)

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Asserts that Trump's border enforcement and deportation of over 2 million illegal immigrants led to a decrease in rents.

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