Natives of Mexico City, Mexico have engaged in protests against American digital nomads and expats over a variety of issues, mainly economic and cultural. Some of these protests have become violent due to the frustration felt between Americans and Mexicans. The key issue here is that Americans have been coming to Mexico City in droves since the pandemic for remote work. Many of these digital nomads do not speak Spanish and they don’t ingratiate themselves into the local, preexisting culture. They just work and continue to live as Americans. This has caused issues with gentrification of housing and an explosion of costs for other things such as food and water. The general sentiment from Mexico City natives is that the American presence has caused them harm.
This sounds very familiar to Americans living in America who complain about illegal aliens, many of whom come from Mexico and other Central American countries. Illegals come to the United States and drive the cost of labor down which causes the cost of living to go up for Americans. A prime example of this is the situation in Springfield, Ohio when 20,000 Haitians were dropped onto a small city of about 50,000. The Haitians were brought in to work at chicken plants, steel plants, and other places. While these people did show up to work and the work was satisfactory for the corporations, it came at a very high cost to the local residents including higher rents, higher car insurance premiums, and higher taxes due to all of the services that the state provided to keep the foreign workers in Ohio.
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