I agree with almost everything you said. I'm not saying immigration is the cause or is a primary driver to the material shortages people observe. I'm saying there are real shortages, in healthcare capacity, in transportation capacity, housing probably less an actual shortage but that too. And then people read about immigration numbers, see the new people around them, waiting in the ER, on the barely crawling highway, in the packed subway, etc. They see those new people and they make the obvious, surface level conclusion that they're suffering because there's more people using these resources. I'm saying this is an easy conclusion to make, not that it's the right one. It's also easy to make because it's valid if one freezes all other variables, like the ones you mentioned. Worse, to my mom, those variables just don't exist. They've never been in her consciousness. And then there's PP and Trump assuring her that the simple explanation is the right one. They're Occam's-razoring her. I'm just explaining the process of anti-immigrant sentiment surge. I think given how easily it emerges from our material conditions, it can't be waived away by the people who believe immigration is a net positive and especially by such politicians. It has to be taken into account and the root causes solved, like doing most of what you suggested. Otherwise I think we're going down the same path the US and Europe is going down, no matter how nice and immigration-friendly we've been so far. I think fixing the shortages would halt and even reverse that, calling people bigots (not saying you're doing that) would work for some but probably not most.