Easy.

There is a huge portion of the country, about 1/3, that knows they aren't living the American dream, but they work hard and don't understand why.

Then, someone tells them something slightly true. That there's not enough pie to go around (semi-true), and that the reason there's not enough pie is all the immigrants and freeloaders who aren't working and are taking handouts (false).

What they aren't told is there could be enough pie to go around, if the top 1% was willing to share. They aren't. And they now control ~35% of wealth in the USA.

And then the top 1% uses that extra capital to tell that 1/3 of people that their Hispanic neighbor is the problem.

Decades of talkings heads offering an explanation for rural decline, that’s how. Look back to Rush Limbaugh and his predecessors.

The irony is rampant immigration (and our tolerance to it) was an economic miracle for the US, an envy of the world. We’d be facing a population cliff like S Korea, Japan, China or Russia without it. But now that’s coming for us too :(

How has immigration affected the average voter?

Tasty ethnic food. There are tasty tacos around, some good Pho, there was an Ethiopian place around here, and tabouli with BBQ.

The remaining Caribbean place around here is really disappointing and the pulled pork is dry, so there is that.

Rich people said poor people have no health care because poorer people get sick sometimes.

Their eyes are offended by the very sight of someone different from them.

Well you see, they are coming here to steal all our jobs but they are also jobless losers stealing all our welfare

My personal explanation:

These are people who weren't here when those voters were children and a large part of the population are voting to stop time, not policies or anything.

1. They are willing to work for less than a normal American living wage. This reduces the amount that an American can work for for the same job. Globalists love this.
2. They bring and establish a different culture eroding a way of life that is considered American.

Those are two things I think someone might say about immigrants. Additionally, there's general disdain for the poor and many immigrants come here to escape worse poverty.

My favorite is when MAGAts claim immigrants are taking our jobs, while also claiming immigrants are sucking off the government teat getting free rent, healthcare ect because they are too lazy to work. Schrödinger's immigrant.

All my favorite food and culture comes from regions I am not native.

Have you ever considered being a giant racist dick though?

They have to look at brown people

It puts downward pressure on wages. That pressure is way overblown by Republicans and there are plenty of solutions to address it that don't involve sending icestapo in to break up families though.

Pretending that this pressure doesn't exist just makes people like us who want to stop this seem out of touch to the normal person who has concerns about immigration, which the election showed is a very large chunk of Americans and westerners in general.

These concerns should be addressed by showing the relative magnitude of the problem compared to benefits gained from immigration along with solutions for stagnating wages, not outright dismissal.

Well, large tech corporations often cut costs by falsely listing impossible to meet job descriptions and then use that to ask the government for an excuse to hire a foreign worker, who they will hire despite not meeting the job descriptions either, but is willing to work for a fraction of what the domestic worker can afford to live on.

So there is that

But that's not the fault of those immigrants, who are just looking for a better opportunity; that's on the corporations abusing a system that is supposed to improve the domestic economy by bringing in top talent to American industry, not by displacing domestic employees and depressing wages.

And uh, also, the conservative wing and the administration isn't really upset about that at all, either.

Corporations illegally hire undocumented immigrants, therefore reducing the cost of labor and stealing jobs from americans

"Fuck you, I've got mine"

That's German and Irish immigrants to the US and their descendants being portrayed as doing the same to Chinese immigrants in 1870

As drawn by a German-American immigrant cartoonist, no less.

You can't think of a single thing an immigrant has made worse?

Then you must not heard of Elon Musk.

Because any kind of minority is inferior to white straight people and they're the reason for every ill in the world today.

It's truly just racism. It's worked for 4000 years, since the establishment of civilizations.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - LBJ

They clearly think cruelty is a zero sum game. If cruelty is applied to another, the cruelty to them is reduced.

They are wrong. The machine knows no bounds. Your boot on another's face does not remove the boot from your own.

Racism

They are taking mah jobs at the moment.

Seriously, though, send help. I'm fighting them off with this broom handle for now, but there are just too many of them!

Has she tuned into Nick Fuentes. The answer is: racism.

People hardly ever bring up how any company that knowingly hires illegal immigrants should be fined out of business. But of course it’s the workers that must face the consequences.

Is it ok to be against immigration that lets people be exploited, such as h1-b without sufficient enforcement, or undocumented aliens where the person is at risk but the employer is not. We can fix it by better support of employee rights regardless of immigration status

Illegals are KILLING People!

-Supporters of ICE!

Surpressed wages. Immigration is just a consequence of the bourgeoisie war against the proletariat. It works double for them because they can blame the immigrants that they bring in for people's problems and can use them to make those problems worse.

You aren't going to find pro immigrant leftists. You will find humanitarian leftists that think the people the right bring here should be treated like people.