Exactly, despite the messages from the national government (under pressure no doubt from global institutions and Biden administration), it is a little bit of a white pill having regional governance effectively saying 'fuck off foreigners' from certain areas as that puts in the precedence for others to follow.

Don't be surprised if more places follow, hell I wouldn't be surprised if their next election, the winning party runs on 'instead of immigration, we fuck more and build robots and autonomous trucks'