Ep. 2507 - Mamdani Wants Immigrants on Welfare. Here's Why.
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Don't plan on working? Out. Bringing an entire family, the vast majority of whom will draw on the tax paradigm? Nope. Well, this is what the Trump administration is now arguing. And New York mayors are on Mamdani, and the rest of the Democrats are screaming bloody murder. The question is, why? Why are Democrats so desperate to import people who are dependent on the American taxpayer? Why aren't Democrats concerned with the people who actually pay the taxes in the United States? We'll get into that question as well as the ugly answer. Plus, pardon brokering and skeezy wedding gifts, the Emmys, and a one-hit wonder trying to make bank on accusing Israel of genocide. This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
So when my great-great-grandparents got here from Lithuania and Russia more than 100 years ago, they came here with pretty much nothing. And they were entitled to pretty much nothing because that's the way that things work. This was true of virtually all immigrants to the United States for the first 160 years or so of our existence. They came here knowing that they probably weren't going to get anything. There were some mutual aid societies, maybe some friends and family who were already here. Who might be able to help them out, but The government was not going to be the primary means of support for these people and they knew it.
What is the Trump administration’s new public‑charge rule and why does it matter?
They were coming here because they were coming for the opportunity. So what did this mean in effect? Well, it meant high levels of assimilation. If you can't get paid without a job, and if you can't get a job without assimilating, you actually have to assimilate. So again, for my great great grandparents, they came here speaking Yiddish. And within a generation, everybody was speaking English. This is very common among immigrants from the places that, again, my ancestors came from. They came here and they said to their kids, you are not allowed to speak Yiddish in the home. You actually have to speak English so you can learn English and then assimilate. Second, it meant a lot more involvement with social institutions.
So that meant more involvement, if you were a Christian immigrant, with your church. Because if you needed help, you went to your local religious institution for that help. And that was good because when you go to your local religious institution for help as opposed to going to the government, that comes along with strings. like acting well. And when you're part of a community and you're drawing from the communal pool in terms of support, you owe things back to the community. It's not just a faceless check arriving in the mail. Third, it meant drawing a certain type of immigrant, the type of person who came here for the opportunity, who wanted to work, who was upwardly mobile. Mean that was the basic bargain, right?
The basic bargain was you come here to work. It's the difference between a store putting out a help wanted sign and a store putting out a free donut sign. It's going to draw two very different types of people. Help wanted brings the job applicants. Free donuts brings the people who want free donuts. Well, the free donuts were the welfare state. And then came the Immigration Naturalization Act alongside the Great Society programs of LBJ. Again, if you change the Incentive structure, you are going to draw different people.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:54
2
What is the Trump administration’s new public‑charge rule and why does it matter?
1:54–5:38
3
How did historical immigration policies shape today’s welfare‑dependent immigrant population?
5:38–50:31
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Why does Sweden’s generous welfare system lead to higher immigrant unemployment?
50:31–54:22
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What motive does New York Mayor Zorn Mamdani have for importing welfare‑dependent immigrants?
54:22–1:04:48
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