Maybe it’s most principled not to hate anybody at all?

People simply hate foreigners.

The rich gentrify and make everything expensive.

The poor live of welfare or steal your jobs.

Your local wealthy people isn't going to price you out your low-income neighbourhod because he fancys going downstairs and watching people working and speaking in spanish.

Anyway, 99% of them are just wealthier workers.

Plenty of awareness of that:

> "I refuse to talk about the invasion of foreigners, it is not a matter of nationality, of labeling them guilty," explains Mayela Delgadillo, a citizen rights activist

But if labeling them xenophobic makes you feel better about the situation, and allows you to ignore their legitimate complaint because it was made in terms you find objectionable, go ahead

It might happen without foreigners but it's happening with foreigners.

I went to Mexico 20 years ago. I thought I'd try to find work for a few months. Even though I found a job other people prevented me from working. They were orders of magnitude more aggressive against me than I remembered Americans were in California against illegal aliens from Mexico at that time.

Blaming both seems good enough