What a pathetic attempt at a dog-whistle. If you want to start writing anti-immigrant comments just do it, don't doll it up in this bullshit pseudo pragmatism. Not like other people are letting it stop them.
The mass import of different cultures is a real problem because it erodes trust and cohesion within communities affected.
To put it bluntly, multiculturalism isn't all its cracked up to be. A trickle of immigrants from, for example, east Asia is clearly enriching. The same cannot be said for a mass influx from a culture that holds opposing values. Continuing to deny this will only result in more Brexit-like events.
In my experience, it's the people with the least experience with immigrants who have the most objection to immigration.
> A trickle of immigrants from, for example, east Asia is clearly enriching
I don't know what country you are in, but if you are in the West than East Asian nations certainly do not share your 'values'. Visit one of those countries some time.
But this comment is outright hateful ethnic stereotyping. One essential Western value is to judge people by their actions individuals, not by the color of their skin, their nationality, their sexual preference, etc. Another is liberty, which doesn't mean liberty to do what someone else happens to like.
Every generation of immigrants has the same things said about them: They don't integrate, they speak their own language, they don't share our values, etc. etc. But their kids grow up natives. How sad that you have so little confidence in those values that you don't think they will win over these immigrants just like they've won over every generation of immigrants before them.
Same in Germany. The most persistent protests against immigration are in Saxony, where only 3.0% of the population are foreigners (compared to 9.4% national average).
Source: https://www.destatis.de/DE/ZahlenFakten/GesellschaftStaat/Be... (I'm looking at the columns specifically titled "Foreigner". "German with migration background" includes additional immigrants that gained German citizenship, but also a whole slew of people who were displaced after WW2 when the German borders were redrawn.)
This is not a new idea: the US said this about the Irish in the early 20th century, but now everyone is proud of their Irish heritage and loves St. Patrick's day - Irish culture has been fully embraced.
The same thing happened a little while later for the Italians, and then for the Asians (which you've called 'enriching', a contemporary attitude if I've ever heard one). Pizza, Asian food, St. Paddy's and Tacos are quintessentially American: American culture is multiculturalism.
Please consider my reply to another comment:
Lets be clear about what these candidates are. Macron is a neoliberal globalist elitist. Economically, he may be more right than Le Pen.
Le Pen is a populist authoritarian nationalist. Certainly not far-right.
There are multiple reasons to be against miss-migration, most of them pragmatic.
I'm not sure how you can count them and say 'most'. Certainly a lot of racism is involved. I've rarely heard many economic analyses or real evidence that provide pragmatic reasons, but that doesn't rule them out.
But many of our beliefs about them are stereotypes, and one of our values is that individuals should be judged by their actions, not their skin color or nationality.
Also, my preferences are not a basis for law, unless they do significant harm, and not for excluding immigrants. I am not the judge of others; freedom means freedom for others to do things that you don't like - otherwise it's meaningless.
Also if you think the west is one of the more racist or sexist place in the world you are naive in the extreme. The immigration policies of "far right" European parties are completely mainstream in East Asia. If a party advocated for a similar immigration policy to say, Chinas, they'd be labelled as Nazis and lynched by a diversity mob.
You would experience it as a some kind of problem.
Everything else seems like a plausible characterization of facts.