by John Binder
Mass immigration “makes prices soar” for locals, the New York Times admits in a story covering anti-immigration protests in Mexico City, Mexico.
The Times piece, titled “As a Tourist Influx Makes Prices Soar, Hundreds Protest in Mexico City,” chronicles anti-immigration protests in Mexico City, where locals began rioting and defacing businesses and buildings over the weekend.
Buried in the Times article, though, is an admission that mass immigration to any one place spurs a housing crisis and a cultural transformation — all of which is difficult to undo.
“The outrage reflects the growing difficulty of affording a city that has become a hot spot for Western immigrants,” the Times piece states:
The demonstration reflected the growing frustrations of many of the capital’s residents, who have watched rents skyrocket and old neighborhoods turn into swanky developments as the city has become a major tourist destination and a base for many so-called digital nomads. [Emphasis added]
The Times made a similar admission in 2022 while covering rising housing costs across Canada as a result of mass immigration. The Wall Street Journal, that same year, acknowledged that mass immigration to America’s northern neighbor had made once middle-class communities totally unaffordable for even upper-middle-class locals.
In 2023, while then-President Joe Biden was welcoming millions of migrants to the United States, Axios admitted that the scheme “makes U.S. housing crisis worse,” noting that “cities simply don’t have enough affordable homes, enough shelters, or enough money to help everyone who needs it, straining scarce resources and leaving thousands of people out on the street.”