Arguing against the "Trump deportations would help the housing crisis" framing reinforces the framing. Accepting the premise that this has anything to do with housing is making Trump's argument for him by accepting the frame that immigrants and native-born Americans are in zero sum competition.

It's fucked up how being wrong in many ways at once becomes an advantage because arguing against one error works like implicitly conceding on all the others.

Correct, the only valid response is "that's Nazi shit"

Was it even his framing? I first saw it in NYT and I was wondering if they whole-clothed it for him

This is why news organizations just slotting Trump's genocidal plan into "Trump's plan for the economy/housing" helps Trump (it's designed to help Trump). Reframe the debate.

Deportation will not solve anything

Nobody has read Lakoff

Pete Buttigieg would have bodied thatPete Buttigieg would have bodied that

Zero-sum thinking will be the death of this nation.

I won't hear it and I won't respond to it.

Even if you accept the premise, put aside the awful ethics, how is removing millions of people who do most of the actual work in our economy going to have a positive outcome and not just collapse the whole thing like a Jenga tower?