Democracy has no love of immigration, as is shown when it is given any voice on such questions. All the richer societies have sizable welfare features, which the majority can hardly want to share out with the foreigner. Elites want immigration to prove they're not prejudiced, to gain power through easily manipulated ethnic blocs, to throw their labor costs on to the general public, or out of blind malice and nihilstic rage against civilization and prosperous humanity.