I think you might’ve missed my point. Policy can be taken as “always as issue” in the same as taxation is “always an issue”, because people will always have opinions on how to do things. But my question was more along the lines of there being an actual problem with the current policy or did people just start complaining about immigration because the right wing complains about immigration.

My experience was that people didn’t really mind immigration until the right wing started complaining how the current policy is bad and we’re letting freeloaders and other questionable individuals in.