Nah, don't fall for that bullshyt narrative.Trump & Boris
UK & USA cacs are tired of immigrants, now they got racists in power.
Illegal immigration peaked in 2006, and back then it was still enough of a non-issue that Bush and McCain was trying to push amnesty and 53% of the American people elected a Black son of an immigrant with an obviously foreign name.
And you can predict how anti-immigration a white person will be by how few immigrants are in their district. The places with the LEAST immigration are the MOST anti-immigrant.
2016 happened because White people were triggered by 8 years of Obama, by the lasting effects of the 2008 recession, and by working class wages that have stagnated for 40 years. Add in the fact that Hillary was an awful candidate and the NeoLibs refused to go after the bankers and were heavily complicit in the mess, and you have all the ingredients for a Trump win.
Trump has a (White) immigrant mother, a (White) immigrant wife, got hundreds of H-2B visas in order to ship in (White) workers from Eastern Europe to staff his club, and hires illegals at all his golf courses and construction projects. He was chain-migrating his (white) foreign in-laws into the country in the middle of the election.
The idea that he's some symbol of anti-immigration solidarity is absurd. He was hating on Black folk, Mexicans, and Muslims because they're not White, not b cause they're immigrants.