Immigration helps business owners: the price of labor goes down. If the advantage they get from it also "tickles down" to the general public (most voters, pre-e

Immigration helps business owners: the price of labor goes down. If the advantage they get from it also "tickles down" to the general public (most voters, pre-existing laborers) depends. If wages stay low due to immigration that may be considered a bad thing, if goods are cheaper that may be a good thing, and more trade ("better economy") is super important! /s Most people that live in healthy communities do not like a large influx of newcomers into their communities: they prefer to keep it the way it was. This is why I believe voters vote against immigration. So on one hand the general public is against, on the other hand the business owners are in favor. Let's see how this pans out. Usually political parties are more strongly against (illegal) immigration when rallying, and more in favor of it when they are in power.