What is it that riles people up about immigration so much?

As well as the above ( although I doubt this is a concern for racists) many of these people are trafficked. They have to pay back the fare to people smugglers somehow, and they do it by working illegally, often being forced into prostitution and the drug trade. British people need to be doing a bit more due diligence when they are getting their nails done, their cars washed, their deliveroos to bring round a can of Coke, or getting their local dealer to deliver their weekend dinner party Cocaine and weed, and when they use prostitutes. Because that's what happens to many ' boat people'.

“I work, pay my taxes but it doesn’t bother me in the slightest if my tax goes towards that because tax is inevitable and something we never see. It’s just so unavoidable so why complain? I guess it’s like my student loan.”

This is a bit of a simplistic take really.

It is inevitable people will look at eg local service cuts, that they can’t get a hospital appointment, that there’s no council housing - and then query why a few billion is going on housing asylum seekers in hotels.

The government has to provide some solution to the issue - but it’s not really surprising people are a bit ‘?’ about the migrant housing situation. So many Brits are housed terribly (or not at all).

The best thing that described this was the lack of resources.

Fine a poor area, and then flood it with working males.

Suddenly the population are fighting over housing, school places doctors dentists and every other service.

Now the middle class area up the road isn’t feeling the same pressure - the migrants aren’t taking middle management roles, they have private doctors and dentists, they have mortgage and know their neighbours. Nothing has changed.

1000 people arrived on boat yesterday - they are sent straight to hotels, when our elderly don’t have hearing - there’s over crowding and homelessness - some people are starving and can’t find jobs

If your aren’t affected you must be privileged

I think lots of people are in favour of managed legal migration. They are not in favour of uncontrolled illegals immigration of mostly young men where we are adding the population of Cardiff to the UK every year.

people care about hotels being taken over because sometimes it’s the only local hotel and where they’ve had weddings and anniversaries and they don’t want it to no longer be available to the community. Sometimes it’s because they see homelessness massively increasing and can’t understand why illegal immigrants are being housed and British people aren’t. Sometimes they have reservations about large numbers of men from countries where women are second class citizens being in the community where it might be a risk to women and girls. I come from that part of the world and share those reservations/concerns.

Also British people have a right to protect British values and traditions. I say that as an immigrant myself.

You've asked a genuine question OP and so I'm giving a genuine answer. These concerns are not specific to Britain (or indeed to white people). I can guarantee that the indigenous populations of Jamaica, India or Poland would not be jumping for joy about thousands of foreigners being financed by the Government to live in hotels or HMO's. There would be discord, at the very least. I would also say that if the vast majority of those foreigners were single young men with no background/criminality checks or proof of identity, then the situation would be exacerbated ten fold.

They are racist and xenophobic and they are fed lies about "taking all our jobs and houses", "filling up the schools" and "the men are all rapists". They see what they want to see in the news and don't want to hear about jobs being hard to fill, nobody wanting to live in older housing, school rolls falling and most rapists being White.