it only depends on your point of view whether it is racist
if he is making a point about how silly it is that the big issue about these released prisoners is the fact that they are 'foreign' then it is fair comment, although admittedly it's a little close to the wind.
It's like the joke:
A black man walks into the bar with a parrot on his shoulder. Everyone in the bar stops talking, because it is pretty unusual to see parrots in the pub. Eventually someone plucks up the courage to ask
'Well, how unusual, i've not seen one of those before, wherever did you find it?'
And the parrot says:
'I found it in the jungle there are loads of them there'
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It's like the joke:
A black man walks into the bar with a parrot on his shoulder. Everyone in the bar stops talking, because it is pretty unusual to see parrots in the pub. Eventually someone plucks up the courage to ask
'Well, how unusual, i've not seen one of those before, wherever did you find it?'
And the parrot says:
'I found it in the jungle there are loads of them there'