Is there more to this argument than thinly veiled nationalism/xenophobia to this argument? If someone builds industry in Europe, in European jurisdiction, whic

Is there more to this argument than thinly veiled nationalism/xenophobia to this argument? If someone builds industry in Europe, in European jurisdiction, which achieves something with less CO2 output, even if he is from Papa Guinea or whatever, what is lost here, beside the ego of some backwards thinking people?