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Untrue.
As with issues like crime, people's perceptions are out of step with reality. When polled, the public vastly overstate the percentage of the population that are immigrants. In addition, the positive responses to the question 'does your local area have a problem with immigration?' are always lower than responses to 'does the nation have a problem with immigration?'.
The media has a key role in shaping opinion.
So you are saying I am imagining the number of ethnics in my local (backwater) town?