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by Yetanfou 3390 days ago

   I have yet to see any evidence that they do it in higher 
   proportion that european-born population.
Evidence is available in abundance for those willing to look for it. Here is an often-discussed publication from the Swedish "Crime-prevention council" on the subject:

https://www.bra.se/bra/publikationer/arkiv/publikationer/200...

https://www.bra.se/download/18.cba82f7130f475a2f1800012697/1...

Similar publications are available from other countries, eg. The Netherlands:

https://www.cbs.nl/NR/rdonlyres/FA26E32C-250B-4D1D-B3B9-3508...

I'm a migrant myself (from the Netherlands to Sweden) so this thing is interesting to me. If you read these reports you'll soon find out that it is not simply the fact that someone migrates from country A to country B which makes him or her more likely to commit crimes. A simple look at the statistics shows that immigrants from certain regions to both Sweden and the Netherlands are actually underrepresented in crime statistics, this goes for people from eg. China and Japan. People who come from eg. north-African and middle-eastern countries are over-represented. Over- or under-representation in crime statistics is more a factor of culture and cultural differences than it is a simple factor of origin.