This article investigates how European public opinion responded to shortterm variations in foreign-born immigration over the past decade (2010-2019). Combining regional data from the European Social Survey and the European Union Labour Force Survey, we test how the public opinion on migration changed with the net rate of international migrants in 115 EU regions from 13 Western European countries. We find that a short-term increase in non-European born, foreign immigration within a given region is associated with more restrictive views regarding migration policy among the native population, regardless of the education level of immigrants. Immigrants' origin thus emerges as a key predictor of natives' attitudes and largely outweighs educational attainment. However, we do not reject the possibility that immigrants' education level matters: When non-European immigration increases, attitudes towards immigration are relatively more negatively affected among natives with financial difficulties when immigrants are not tertiary educated, but not when those immigrants have tertiary education.