Oh there is hypocrisy from all corners on this matter.  Republican politicians posing as law and order yet not wanting to make their small businessmen friends pay higher salaries or have their suburban wives say goodbye to their dirt-cheap maids and gardeners.  Democrat politicians posing as friendly to all immigrants yet having no choice but to quietly deport the most undesirable of the lot.  So the uneasy status-quo was to deport some of them - just not too many.

Then comes this weirdo who claims among other things that he will actually enforce the immigration laws of his country.  To everyone's surprise he upsets the mainstream chamber-of-commerce republicans and wins the republican party nomination, and then stuns pretty much the world by winning the presidential election.  Now we have a good fraction of the public and pretty much the entire commentariat stunned and furious that a politician seems about to actually implement the platform he was elected on.