However, I suspect that like me other US readers will still blend the issue together and I do still believe the term anti-immigrant is inaccurate. Nobody is anti-immigrant. It is anti-unregulated immigration that ceases to protect a country's borders, schools and other social services against a hoard that harms existing citizens and that can bring a country's economy to its knees.
I understand there will be Americans who don’t realize the difference between Euro and American immigration issues. It’s the same thing with the political terms right and left, they’re different in Europe and the US. When the media talks about the “far-right” in Europe, people think it’s the same as here in the US. It couldn’t be any different. In Europe, everyone is a socialist. The “far-right” in Europe is still socialist, they’re just not as nuts as the Communists. No one over there is for free markets or even remotely close to what we think of as right-wing here in the US.
I will say this, in Europe these “far-right” parties are very much anti-immigrant. This is quite a bit different than the right here in the US, which isn’t anti-immigrant but rather anti-illegal immigration.