A large percentage of people voting for mass deportations (i.e. Trump) are certainly xenophobic and racist, but a lot of them also believed that mass deportations would solve all their problems: available jobs would go up, wages would go up, while inflation and crime rates would go down.
None of those things have happened--in fact, their media bubble keeps telling them that major cities are burning to the ground, and it's so bad that the army has to occupy them to "stop the violence." They were willing to inflict savagery on non-violent immigrants with the understanding that it would solve America's problems. Things were supposed to get better not worse. And that's what they mean when they say they "didn't vote for this."
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