No surprise, it is clear the way moods and opinion is turning Western Europe. Anti-immigration is now the normalised position and those in power are learning they have to appease such sentiment at least nominally if they want to retain power. We can see it with Macron in France, the neo-liberal who will issue some mildly anti-immigration or perceived "racist" statement to make it look like he's doing something about such an issue. Actually even funnier is that it is happening even in Turkey, the country mentioned in this article, anti-refugee/migrant sentiment is high there which is the actual main reason why Erdoğan opened the flood gates to Europe because he was losing popularity over it.

This is nothing but electioneering though, if you think any of these movements are becoming "based" you are wrong. Social democratic parties have to make this appeal so they can retain enough suburban and rural votes to have a possibility to be in power, because they're usually at a net disadvantage in most countries because their voter base is mostly urban, and the liberal conservative parties do not do anything about it as well. For example, Boris Johnson in Britain was elected in 2019 on the basis of a "points-based immigration" system (which is basicially a dog-whistle for reducing immigration numbers) among many of other of his promises but then he reveals his actual plan and there's no migration limit in this system (making it arguably worse than before) and Britain is planning for visa liberalisation with numerous 2nd-world/3rd-world states in post-Brexit trade deals also. Or Macron, what has he done to actually stop migration despite the "populist" rhetoric he likes to make sometimes?