@skinnylatte there's a really nasty trap where people see "real americans" being treated poorly e.g. paying absurd tuition costs, and then rather than thinking about that, they just accept it, and switch to "well of course we can't afford to give cheap tuition to foreigners, we can't even afford to give cheap tuition to Americans". But obviously it's a real failure of imagination to think those problems are innate or unsolvable and it's a deliberate ploy to recenter everything around immigration