Podcaster Shawn Ryan on Trump's mass deportation plans: “The economy is gonna face some consequences. I think it already probably is.”
Ryan: “You know what what pisses me off is, like, I do think that we need these people in this country”
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From the July 14, 2025, edition of Vigilance Elite's The Shawn Ryan Show
SHAWN RYAN (HOST): I'm a little more on the middle on this than most people think. I get painted out to be like a MAGA troll or something, because a lot of the people that I've interviewed, including Trump himself. And while I do lean conservative, I am not that far right. And so, I think there's a happy medium here, and I'm glad you brought up the economic repercussions of this because, yes, you know, I mean, I'm constructing, you know -- we talked at breakfast -- I'm constructing a new studio that's been delayed. You know, a lot of I mean, you know, restaurants are hurting. Construction's hurting. A lot of -- farming's hurting. Like, we, you know, we use those people that -- they fill those jobs. They just, it just, it is what it is. They fill the jobs.
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RYAN: How do we solve it long term, though? You know? I mean, we see this shit, and it's just subject after subject, and it gets fucking batted back and forth between Republicans and Democrats, over and over again with the, you know, border being one of them.
But, you know, I don't see anybody and I -- maybe I'm missing, like I said, I don't watch the news. But I don't see anybody trying to fix immigration other than, you know, we're ripping the border wall down. We're putting the border wall up. We're gonna shut the border down. We're gonna open the fucking border. And you know, but there's no pathway -- the pathway for immigrants to come into the country legally is not changing. It's not been streamlined. Nothing's been tuned to, you know, what we're dealing with today.
And a lot of these people are, I mean, I'll probably get blasted for saying this, but I see it first -- I mean, the guy that built this studio, right here, this wasn't here before. He built it and came in on Easter Sunday, worked his ass off, had him do some stuff at other properties that I own. And now, the last time I talked to him, he's got, like, 12 different crews. I mean, he has achieved the American dream. He's an extremely hard worker. He does great work. I mean, I likes -- love to see that, because I've seen so many Americans -- not immigrant Americans, Americans -- say, 'Oh, the American dream's over. I can't buy a home. I can't do this. I can't do that.' And it's like, this dude barely speaks English, built this, built that. Now he's got, you know, multiple crews running, and he's doing amazing.
But you know what pisses me off is, like, I do think that we need these people in this country, and I do think that there's -- the economy is gonna face some consequences. I think it already probably is. And so why is nobody on the right or the left trying to fix the actual immigration policy?