The immigrants by large are coming from the worst imaginable conditions and fighting their way into Fortress Europe. It is the failure of our societies to help the countries like Syria, Afghanistan, etc to be liveable. We are paying the price for this failure.
There were absolutely pro-migration politicians, e.g. Merkel.
> immigrants by large are coming from the worst imaginable conditions and fighting their way into Fortress Europe
Europe continues to have generous refugee obligations, protections and benefits. There also isn’t a robust deportation regime, in part because there isn’t anywhere to legally deport them to. That’s probably what these voters take offence to. (I unfortunately don’t see any non-radical solutions.)
Which in turn further drives and exploits the anger.
That’s a concern. The working poor’s concern is the labor competition from one side and welfare competition from the other.
Of course Russia and China aren’t innocent when it comes to Syria and large parts of Africa
Not relevant to the political question. The point is there is anger at the number of migrants European politicians let in.