Resisting mass immigration to leach from your welfare state is not xenophobic.
I don't have any objections to a country looking out for its own interest, resisting illegal immigration or immigrants that otherwise cannot contribute much to the economy, but they are not the only ones the government is cracking down on.
your welfare state is not the world model
e.g.
Germany Sees Welfare Benefit Costs More Than Double
Asylum seekers received nearly $5.91 billion in welfare benefits in 2015
https://www.wsj.com/articles/germanys-welfare-bill-rises-169...
and your assessment of employment rates among legal immigrants in Europe is simply not borne out by the statistics
https://www.economist.com/news/finance-economics/21709511-to...
I'm responding to
> the recent wave of xenophobia worldwide
The costs of the refugee crisis
The German government will have to spend 50 billion euros on refugees during this year and next, a new study estimates. In order to balance these costs, researchers urge financial restraint elsewhere.
http://www.dw.com/en/the-costs-of-the-refugee-crisis/a-19016...