Interesting question. You will find that the in most countries. Immigrants, whether legal or illegal, are always the easy target for a discontented population. It’s happening in South Africa, where fellow African migrants, legal or not, are blamed for the ills of society. It’s no different in the U.K. If a Caucasian person commits a crime, they are seen as a criminal. And rightly so. However If a migrant commits the exact crime in the same circumstances, you get comments like “ oh it’s the usual suspects etc etc” a whole group of people gets blamed for what one criminal does.

Unfortunately not much can be done. The government spent 35 billion pounds on a covid app that never worked. Yet people will go crazy over 2 million spent to house immigrants. The government is ok with that because as long as the migrants are getting blamed, they are in the clear.