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The mayor of Buenos Aires is prone to using violence and very much in line with the old dictatorship style, he has a history of promoting violence against poor people (not just poor immigrants). Who is he keeping the parks safe for? Only rich people? What border controls should the national government be enforcing? As the article clearly says, people have a right to move through the country, it's not refusing to do anything, it's following the law.
If Argentina had 11 million immigrants, that would be less than the peak immigration. Also, the population of Argentina is 40 million, while that of the US is 310 million, so 11 million is 3.5% of the US population, while 1 million is 2.5%. If Argentina had 11 million immigrants that would be 27.5%. The 2009 foreign-born population of the US was 13%, I'm not sure if it includes the estimates for undocumented immigrants. And this ignores a lot of political issues regarding how the US and Europe are so much better off than the 3rd world which is a reason so many people want to move there.
You are right that it's easier for immigrants from neighbouring countries to integrate due to a shared language, but since you were in Buenos Aires you can't have missed the large quantity of Chinese and Korean immigrants who obviously have a much harder time with the language. Not having to hide from government officials also helps with integration, I might add.
Racism in Argentina is complex, and it's usually called discrimination since it's not based so much on 'race' as in the US and Europe. Most of the country is actually 'brown' (did you go outside of Buenos Aires? The North and West of Argentina have a lot less European blood). It has a lot to do with education and economic class, which means social mobility is high. And I would definitely say there is less of it in Argentina than in the US, where it's definitely more based in appearance. This is not an immigration-specific problem in any case, it has been this way since before Argentina was Argentina, and immigrants were only European.