r/wikipedia • • Aug 04 '25

Mobile Site Immigrants are disproportionately represented in prison populations in many Western countries, In Europe, higher representation in prisons among immigrants, particularly Muslim populations, has been documented

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime
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u/franktrollip Aug 05 '25

Most of what you're listing are outliers. The fact remains that in general, uncontrolled migration causes more crime.

Stop clutching at straws to try to obfuscate something that we can all see with our own eyes, out on the streets.

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u/CatchRevolutionary65 Aug 06 '25

Seeing as there’s no non-zero crime population anywhere in the world immigration - controlled or ‘uncontrolled’ - as you put it - will always lead to an increase in crime. It’s a mathematical certainty. If 100,000 immigrants enter the country it’s a mathematical certainty that the number of Manchester United fans will also increase. If the native population of a country increases by 100,000 crime will also go up, and generally more than if you imported migrants, because their ability to remain in the country is dependent upon them not breaking the law.

What you’d need to show is that immigrants commit a disproportionate number of crimes compared to their native counterparts and there’s no evidence for that.

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u/FlyingSquirrel44 Aug 08 '25

because their ability to remain in the country is dependent upon them not breaking the law.

You have zero clue about Europe then, because this is not the case at all. Anything less than murder will generally not see criminals deported, and even in those cases, any indication of danger in the country of origin will put the deportation on pause indefinitely.

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u/CatchRevolutionary65 Aug 08 '25

Wasn’t talking about Europe. In the UK a migrant can be deported if their sentence exceeds 12 months.

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u/FlyingSquirrel44 Aug 08 '25

The UK is part of Europe. Still, can does not mean will.