There is a long history of casting immigrants as “takers” and I guess if you ignore how the economy works, how housing policy works, how the construction industry works, you can arrive at “immigrants need housing and therefore must be taking it from you” but it’s not easy to get there

Can illegal/undocumented immigrants even *buy* a house? How would that work?

They are leaning hard into this one, and it resonates with their low info nationalistic voter base. Sickening.