Josh Gay

And to me, immigration is the biggest evidence that we see that this regime, the Trump regime, is not aligning their rhetoric with actual numbers.

The actual numbers and what is happening with immigration policies

It doesn't live on the same planet that the Trump administration.

So I want to walk through some of these numbers and what they actually say calmly, clearly, and carefully.

And I want to use a source here that's going to make, I mean, it's going to make all of us uncomfortable.

But it's especially going to make the people on the right uncomfortable.

Because the numbers are coming from an unexpected source.

It's a white paper put together by the right-leaning, the libertarian Cato Institute.

They're not exactly a socialist knitting circle here.

And this week we saw, and this is part of a series that the Cato Institute has been doing over the last few weeks.

The Cato Institute released a major white paper analyzing the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

And they went all the way back from 1994 onwards.

through 2023, 30 years.

I mean, this is a really deep dive, a really deep dive into the economics of immigration in our country.

It goes through multiple administrations, multiple economic cycles, booms, recessions, deportations, everything in between.

And the conclusions directly contradict a large portion of what the people on the right are saying about immigration.

So I want to start real quick, just to recap for those of you who don't know who Cato is and why this matters.

Cato is a right-leaning, libertarian, conservative think tank.

They are huge champions of free market economics.

They're skeptical of big government, of government spending.