I have a general theory that most people who are currently nativists /in most countries/ are indeed genuinely just not really engaging their brain properly on why migration happens and how reversing it looks in practice.

Any time a European suggests sending eg Syrian refugees "where they came from" they are literally not engaging with the basic reality that they are suggesting sending human beings back to this place, where even the "good guys" are the ones doing the thing in this article.

In America's case, the irony is that many of these nativists are descended from those who passed through Ellis Island 100+ years earlier, & had the same kind of nativism thrown at them. A kind of "slamming the door behind oneself".

a surprisingly high percentage of Trump voters in the US want to expel all undocumented immigrants and admit more refugees