And by immigrants I really mean immigrants: you don’t have the nationality and live in the country = you’re an immigrant.
I keep reading about the plans of parties to kick out all immigrants, stop letting in any, and some parties even advocate to revoke dual-nationalities and kick those people out too. I’ve never really understood what the point of it is and have trouble imagining what the effects of such actions would be within the country.
In addition to what everyone else said about it being an easy scapegoat to rile up voters, I don’t think those in power actually care about getting rid of immigrants. What they really want is to make conditions even harder for immigrants, making them more desperate and thus easier to exploit. They want to make immigrants into an extreme underclass that will have no choice but to accept even worse working conditions with even worse under-the-table pay, knowing any complaint will lead to immediate deportation.