“I have no idea what I’m talking about with regard to the state of impediments to residential construction in the state of California, so am instead choosing to

“I have no idea what I’m talking about with regard to the state of impediments to residential construction in the state of California, so am instead choosing to scapegoat a fictional set of demanding ‘immigrants,’ which happens to also be a common NIMBY retort, but I am not a NIMBY because that’s name calling. Instead, I just have a wild set of misconceptions about reality that are unique to me” is the position you’re staking out. You could instead begin with the fact of how insane it is that 95% of residential land in California is zoned single-family: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-california-statewide-analysis https://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-californ... But why let that get in the way of all those immigrant monsters hiding in your closet?