it seems to me that the US elites want a system more like India's caste system.
I say that with zero hyperbole intended.
The goal seems to be just break the lower middle class and below with increased health care costs and increased taxes (via tariffs), etc and to eventually drive them completely outside any system of help. Render them locked in debt, homeless and with no gov't services available to help them.
I think there is a belief if they can push enough people to be that desperate they can then get them to fill the lowest end jobs at the lowest wages that migrants current fill.
It won't work though as most people would choose not to work when that work and amount of pay gets them almost nothing.