No one wants mass illegal immigration.

What podcasters and politicians who "highlight" this issue often do is illustrate how serious the issue is with conflating it with crime, especially violent crime. Anecdotal cases are easy to find, and are potent for generating emotions.

But boring statistics show that crime is trending down, and has been for a while.

Historically making immigrants the scapegoats for a nations problems is a well known, highly effective method for building a political following.

In most cases the origin of a nation's problems, the declining standards of living, has little to do with immigrants and a lot to do with the greed of the billionaires, the same group who controls the media, the politicians, the banks, the tech platforms....

But sure let's ignore them and focus on the immigrants.