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Immigrant aren't always a racial minority, or oppressed people, and the issues concerning them shouldn't always be viewed as such. It's scary that American's can't seperate the two when talking about the subject.
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At the risk of dorking out, your assumption about these postings being American is not necessarily the case - at least, not in my case.
What the contemporary attitude of most white Judeo-Christian countries is toward immigration is implied Xenophobia - it's not "let's drag the arabs behind our pickup trucks" but its "they are threatening our tradition and culture", or "they have no respect for what this nation (or in the Eu's case) group of nations represent". Xenophobia isn't limited to race - admittedly, a more proper term might be "pan-Europan nationalism" or an expectation of hegemony by the European states. Because Turkey isn't as developed as Germany or the UK doesn't make it the "wild west" - that's a lot of Rudyard Kipling ethnocentrism bullshit.