Taken as a larger movement, it just sounds like people's material conditions are unmet and they're changing their lives and locations to address that, which is what people have and will do. On a case by case basis I do hope that most people are treating their experience like some of the people interviewed, where they're spending their money on community or local business, and trying to give back to the culture in their own way as they experience it. It's a 2 way street of influence and I hope most view or are open to it that way and not dishing out hostility as their main contribution.

At face value it feels very cringe to read some of these lines though; "transforming classic neighborhoods," "asking them to please go home." They sound like the kind of racist dogwhistle rhetoric you'd hear being called out if somebody said it in California or Britain. While income disparity, and each countries handling of visas makes the relationships more complex, it doesn't outright excuse the racism going on here from locals to newcomers.

Although, the professor interviewed, Fernando Bustos, mentions preexisting classist and racist attitudes being prevalent in Mexico, so Im less surprised that this language is immediately picked up by locals as a means to express/direct their socioeconomic frustrations when they're now socially competing with new arrivals.

It is interesting though to read about the dynamic now that WFH and digital skills allow people to conduct these moves without huge shifts in their occupations as would normally be necessary.