Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Oct 8, 2026 · 52 min · 12 segments
They told you diversity was our greatest strength…after every riot, every crime, every economic downturn, it was the same narrative, over and over. The numbers tell a different story. There are big…
Now, again, when you look at this, They want you to kind of focus on C. It's down by 27% from 2024 to 2025.
Yeah, you had a dip after the height here in 2016, but the problem is not just how many people you were letting in, but where you were letting them in from.
And as you can see, the numbers are still significantly higher, like around almost five times higher than they were in 2008.
When you jump up to this degree right here to let in asylum seekers, ostensibly because you want to do something nice for people that are in dangerous situations.
Well, then once the crisis has passed, you drop that way off and you bring it back down to your 2008 levels, right? You go and you return to normalcy, but that's not what they did.
Then they dropped a little bit, which were still higher than anything they'd experienced before 2014.
And then you got to ask the question, where are they coming in? Well, look at this right here.
So we're not even talking about 2014, 2015, where you actually had people coming in in massive numbers from North Africa, from the Middle East.
But again, let's look at the new numbers ever since we just watched a bunch of people coming in from Morocco.
Now, again, when you look at this, They want you to kind of focus on C. It's down by 27% from 2024 to 2025.
Yeah, you had a dip after the height here in 2016, but the problem is not just how many people you were letting in, but where you were letting them in from.
And as you can see, the numbers are still significantly higher, like around almost five times higher than they were in 2008.
When you jump up to this degree right here to let in asylum seekers, ostensibly because you want to do something nice for people that are in dangerous situations.
Well, then once the crisis has passed, you drop that way off and you bring it back down to your 2008 levels, right? You go and you return to normalcy, but that's not what they did.
Then they dropped a little bit, which were still higher than anything they'd experienced before 2014.
And then you got to ask the question, where are they coming in? Well, look at this right here.
So we're not even talking about 2014, 2015, where you actually had people coming in in massive numbers from North Africa, from the Middle East.
But again, let's look at the new numbers ever since we just watched a bunch of people coming in from Morocco.
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