The people are saying don't come here. The Democrat politicians want the votes. Mayor of Chicago wants them, for example. He's pleading to Biden to grant work permits, saying Chicago could handle 400-700 thousand illegal immigrants.Simply put. Ask the progressive Democrat bastions of sanctuary how they feel about wide-open illegal immigrant freedom of movement now that their sanctuaries are being overwhelmingly inundated to the point of them saying don't come here. They are perfectly fine with open borders as long as it doesn't directly affect them. Now it has and they don't like it.
For what purpose? Because he's kind? Because he believes in "free movement?" Ordinary people, even the NPC's (non-playable characters) don't want them. They want to be able to virtue signal, but the cost of that unearned virtue is too high. The Mayor of Chicago is a mayor of ClownWorld™.