The Department of Homeland Security has claimed that mass deportations carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement are contributing to lower rents in several US cities, saying tougher immigration enforcement is helping reduce living costs. In a post on X, DHS said it was 'reducing your rent, especially in states that cooperate with ICE', but did not identify the sources or methodology behind the figures it cited.
The agency wrote, 'Want lower cost of living: support mass deportations.' It said Texas accounted for about a quarter of ICE arrests in July and highlighted rent declines of 4.8 per cent in San Antonio, 4.3 per cent in Austin, about 3 per cent in Dallas and Houston, 2.6 per cent in Miami, 4.2 per cent in Phoenix, 3.2 per cent in Atlanta, 5.3 per cent in Nashville and 8 per cent in New Orleans.
