It's... entirely possible to be both, xenophobic and racist? These are not mutually exclusive things where it is one or the other. Also uh, last I did look, when filling in race on a forum when doing the SAT or whatever while I was in the States, the race I did have to put down was White. And there are people out there who still toss racial slurs out at Arabs, I'm willing to say there at least a tiiiiiny sliver of racism in that xenophobia.
It's also a little odd saying that hate against Hispanics is more xenophobia everyone had to deal with at some point when quite a few states used to be Mexican provinces. The hate they get hasn't blunted despite having more than a few generations as US citizens compared to the Irish, the Italians, the Poles... I could go on.
Yes, I completely agree-the point I was making is that they aren't the
same thing, which apparently isn't self-evident any more. Some anti-immigration people are
also racist, but being anti-immigration doesn't make you racist (just historically ignorant if you're murrkan).
Speaking of historical ignorance, the old stuff between the U.S. and Mexico was 100% nationalistic bullshit, back during the whole Republic of Texas nonsense and the wars where we stole a bunch of Mexican states. That had fuck and all to do with xenophobia, it was just good old fashioned imperialism, right at the tail end of when it was still broadly acceptable to acquire land by starting a war, grabbing territory, and kicking out everyone who lived there. The current situation is immigration-related xenophobia, which is a completely different situation. It's like saying that reactions to Chinese immigrants back in the 1800s and reactions to China today are the same thing arising from the same source.
In unrelated news, sources inside the FBI investigation of Trumpet's campaign disclosed that multiple members of his inner circle were in close and repeated contact with Russian intelligence for a prolonged period of time. Gonna be funny if Trump doesn't get to fire them because they've been brought up on treason charges or whatever. Also going to be nice to shift from SJWs and neoliberals crying about the FBI doing their jobs and not giving preferential treatment to the alt-righters crying about the same.