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it's racism. always has been. cult leaders give their followers an easy target to blame their shitty lives on, and it works. legal, illegal--doesn't matter. they're brown. that's literally the reason
how can we get to the point where the "why are they doing this?" no longer needs to be asked?
The sad part is that even if the lives of these MAGAs get worse - worse than the lives of the immigrants they look down upon in their home country, they would likely still be racist.
There are pockets in rural America, an obscenely rich country, that are borderline third world country conditions, and they still vote Republican with a sense of superiority and extreme ignorance of their relative standard of living compared to rest of the world.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if some of them were okay with trading electricity and sewage systems (return to 1700s) for racial and religious homogeny.