At 53:04 on Louder with Crowder, the answer to "don't immigrants make us better?" is: "They poop in the streets and have a lower IQ."

We rate that claim false. Truth score 0.04, confidence 0.85.

Episode: "Trump's Immigration Wins Are Exposing The Immigrants that Hate Us," published 26 August 2026. The line arrives as a rebuttal to a panelist's own counterpoint, and it is chained immediately to a claim about Indian degree mills — which is the tell. Degree mills explain success as fraud; low IQ explains failure as nature. Run together, no observation can disconfirm either.

We steelman the claim before landing the verdict. Cross-national ability measures do agree with each other: Rindermann (2007) found national means correlating r = .85-.86 across student assessments and IQ tests, and India's one PISA appearance (2009) placed two  ...