To be honest, when the economy is good, which it is now, usually people stop caring about illegals. But Trump made too good of an argument to blue collar workers. He said it was illegals who were here illegally competing for jobs and bringing wages down. That is/was true. The only problem is all these white blue collar workers are still competing for these low paying blue collar jobs and the corporations don't want to pay more even though they say they can't find enough help. They/You refuse to raise your wages. You're just waiting it out. You're waiting for the illegals to dig a hole under Trump's wall and start coming back. LOL.
Trump did not make any kind of case. All Donald Trump did was to parrot the Democrats party line message. He conned rednecks with low IQs and exposed how easily duped the average white American really is. He gave you National Socialist
"solutions" he got from a white supremacist. Proof? Figure it out:
The people who vote for Democrats are idiots. That is a given. If, for instance, what you think were true why would the bulk of blue collar workers still be voting for the Ds given that above history lesson?
There is NO proof that foreign labor drives down wages. When America had conservative economists (Nobel Prize winners at that) holding a similar view as mine, they were the good guys:
Free to Choose (Milton Friedman, 1980) – The Tyranny of Control
Classically Liberal: What Milton Friedman really said about immigration.
Anti-immigrants quote Friedman up to a certain point. The second link continues where the anti-immigrant argument leaves off.
Because D's are the lesser of two evils when it comes to working class Americans. I'm not going to go dig up all the facts that prove this. It's obvious. Oh and by the way, the middle class was BOOMING when Clinton was president. The middle class struggled under Bush. And I follow politics pretty close to know Bush's policies really fucked the middle class hard.
And please stop telling us laborers that the GOP is the better choice for us. YOU are a business owner. YOU sound like you are rich. So of course you are going to try to con us into believing the party you like best is the party that we should like best. The fact is, over the past few decades the rich have gotten richer and the middle class is shrinking. And you are right, Trump conned stupid white voters into thinking he was going to MAGA. That's a riot huh?
The funny thing is, I'm doing great under the Republican way. Since 2015 I've seen my pay go from $40k when I started to $90K last year. But the rest of the people at my company are still making what they were making in 2015. Of course I quadrupled my companies aftermarket sales so I deserved the raises but the point is, Democrats would say as long as the company is making good profits, every employee should get at least a cost of living raise every year. That's the liberal way. The conservative way says let them work for a decade without raises. And that's where Americans are. If they didn't lose a good job and have to take a shittier one, they're stuck making the same amount they made 10 years ago. They were barely making it then and are just getting by now. And none of them are saving enough for retirement. I am.
And before you go thinking I lied when I said I made 6 figures, I was counting my $20K a year tax free side gig. $90K plus $20K is 6 figures.