This is an old conservative trick: 1) defund public services 2) divert blame for the negative results on an 'enemy class' of citizen who are abusing and breaking public services 3) distract with a witch-hunt for these enemies;
In the 80s the enemies were "welfare queens", now they're immigrants.
They can't admit they have forest fire smoke blowing north, after all the Republicans demanded we stop letting ours blow south.