"The powers that be are RESPONSIBLE for it. Surely you must be aware of the relation between the ruling class, neo-liberalism and immigration; they've used it to drive down wages, increase precarity and at the same time to create division (and at the same time, on the "liberal" side used it [immigration] as a signal that they are progressive)."

If this is true, why didn't it happen in the 50s and 60s? Working-class destitution began in the 70s because of the state not other poor people.