[littletimmy]

Thinking like that would be a mistake.

The quality of immigrants that US and Europe attract are vastly different. US attracts mostly high quality skilled labor (doctors, tech workers etc.) On the other hand, EU countries often attract the worst sort (people attracted to EU welfare, unsorted refugees, unskilled labor etc.) Naturally, the lower class folk are unlikelier to adjust to life in a new country, and so they commit more crime. This does NOT happen in the US. It is therefore unreasonable to compare US immigration to EU immigration.

Case in point: immigration from Pakistan. Pakistanis in the UK (as an example of a European country) tend to be poor and are highly represented in crime. Pakistanis in the US, on the other hand, have an average income $10000 HIGHER than the average US income. There is also no evidence to suggest they are involved in crime at a rate remotely comparable to the general population.

[anigbrowl]

I don't care for your Donald-Trump style evidence-free arguments. Perhaps if you backed them up with a) statistics and b) an acknowledgement of European countries' record as colonial powers, which gives people of the former colonies an overwhelming moral right to move to the country that disrupted the development of their country of origin.

[scarface74]

How is that a Trump style argument? Poorer people commit more crime on average than richer people? Isn't that true across the spectrum?

[anigbrowl]

Did you try reading the other words in my comment? It's written quite plainly.

[Mikeb85]

> It is therefore unreasonable to compare US immigration to EU immigration.

Unreasonable, but it doesn't matter when society and politicians use European problems to justify policies at home.