As I said, the immigration issue is an issue that both sides used to bash the other with. I personally have no issue with immigration, and I am a right-leaning centrist
In most cases, whether we are in the US or Australia, the "issue" is simply how the administration frames it and fanning people to vote for them. I discussed with someone on another forum about how immigrants are causing the housing crisis in Australia. The talk is about immigrants expanding, and the housing market cannot catch up. The problem, as I explained to the other guy, is that our government is the reason why there is not enough housing to accommodate the population expansion. Australia, being the world's number 2 spacious country in the world (Only beaten by Mongolia), has more than enough space to make a few new towns and build infrastructure. Yet with all these lands, we don't even have government housing, the government is more than willing to give you $700 a month in social benefits on top of the 1400 they give you to rent a place than to build some new house and put you there, and if everyone is given money, then money is not the issue, we need new home, not money. As for why they are doing this, well, you can probably guess.
This is the same system the government uses; it didn't matter if we are talking about the economy or immigration, this is how the government is framing the issue to pull vote, I mean, was immigration really the reason why people are living in the street in LA or New York? Well, we don't have a lot of resources in the US., We don't have universal income, universal health care, or low-income housing has nothing to do with spending resources on immigration; it has to do with paying 12% Federal Tax and 9-11% state tax in the US, vs I am paying 43% tax in Australia. America wasn't a welfare state, which means social issues are going to be a problem, and that is not going to change if you kick out all immigrants, legal or otherwise, out, because those programs don't come from nowhere; you need to fund them. What immigration issue has instead become a "us vs them" issue. It is simply because they are easy to frame as the enemy. And we can just blame it on them and magically all the issues will go away.
