This is a leap of logic I don’t agree with…
I hear a lot of “The rents are too $%^&” high from these folks- which they are. But what’s the solution- MORE rent control? (which economists believe causes higher rents and fewer low income units available). MORE regulation thereby driving out the small business folks who own three or four rental units and are being drowned by red tape and ancillary costs as it is?
Yea, they see illegal immigrants (and lots of them). But they believe that the presence of these people is what’s driving layoffs at Google and Spotify and Meta. Do they really think that the man who is looking for work washing windows or picking strawberries is taking their job in tech?
They may see what they see. That doesn’t mean they understand it.