Yes. They are Deplorable.

[Dems to Win]

67. I'm not demonizing undoc workers, I'm blaming the fed govt for failing to vigorously enforce labor

and immigration laws. I really believe we wouldn't be in this situation today if they had.

Canada vigorously enforces their immigration laws -- I've known people who go there and try to work under the table, and it lasts for about a month. It's a reasonable request for people to make of their government.

When Democrats object to enforcing immigration laws and deporting those here without authorization, many voters hear that Democrats want them to continue working for very low wages in unfair competition with unscrupulous employers who exploit undocumented immigrants.

We can support legalizing Dreamers, but also acknowledge that our current system really does hurt real people, and it's imperative it be fixed urgently. And Dreamers aren't the only people requiring justice in this unfair system -- American citizens and legal residents, workers and employers, are placed in unfair competition with cruel shady employers exploiting desperate undocumented immigrants. Politicians should talk about the needs of the legal workers and small business owners trying to do the right thing, not just the needs of the undocumented immigrants, anytime they talk about this issue. IMHO.

America welcomes millions of legal immigrants. I'm a Californian, I get along with immigrants, I couldn't live here if I didn't. If we want our country to maintain the consensus that we will continue welcoming immigrants, we have to have a system that really works, that doesn't leave some American voters burning with anger at the unfairness of what they see with their own eyes.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/rust-belt-democrats-saw-trump-wave-coming

These Rust Belt Democrats Saw the Trump Wave Coming
And they tried to warn the Clinton campaign.

Like Betras, Taylor doesn't believe his peers and neighbors who supported Trump are racist. But he understands how Trump's talk about immigration appealed to people in the Rust Belt. A few years ago, his union was working on a billion-dollar natural gas processing plant, and the workers noticed that the bulk of the work was being done by Spanish-speaking laborers who arrived each morning on buses. "It brought a lot of resentment to the area because they'd never seen it before," Taylor says. "People see that and then they go tell everybody else, and social media, the way it is, it just runs wild." He believes Trump benefited when the community saw immigrants "taking jobs that Americans think they should be doing."