What free handouts do you think illegal aliens are getting?
Working their asses off out in the heat for one. Who wouldn't? After all, there's no climate change and 100 degrees is balmy. I'm sure all the fat pasty out of work factory workers in places like Cleveland would definitely be out there in the orchards if those dastardly illegals weren't takin' all the jerbs!
What a crock. 10 years back or so Georgia or some other southern state got serious about deportation and suddenly there was an emergency over crops in the fields. They backed down fast. Add in, who's going to mow the lawns...build the houses....and all the other jobs Americans don't want. Not that companies really should be taking advantage of immigrants (not paying benefits to them helps all of us with prices) so it's complicated. Doing right by them would cause prices to go up. Kicking them all out will make prices go up.
Right wingers don't like complicated. They like "bad guy, black hat....good guy, white hat." Illegals are another car the Right hopes they don't actually catch, like abortion--assuming abortion continues to cost them elections. If Trump actually did manage to kick out all the illegals and other refugees, our economy would be in trouble I reckon. So they don't actually want to do it--they want to talk about doing it, playing to all their terrified supporters.
Blaming immigrants ain't new. There are op-eds from the 1800s and likely long before that saying the same bullshit. Just looking to pin blame for their own woes on the outsiders. Easy target, wah if it weren't for those people my life would be awesome! (Of course, they don't think of them as "people" now do they.)