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Originally Posted by Parmy

...you yourself are cherry picking UK statistics and applying them to illligal immigrants.

No, no I'm not.

Home Office and academic studies:
A 2019 UK study (Home Office Research Report 103) found no clear link between asylum seekers and overall crime rates.

Crime rates among immigrants are generally similar to or lower than the native-born population when controlled for age, gender, and socioeconomic status.

A recent University of Bath (UK) and York University (Canada) study examined crime and violent crime across countries with varying refugee intakes:
The study found no evidence that higher levels of refugees per population cause increases in violent crime.

In fact, countries with more progressive asylum policies did not have higher levels of violent crime than those with more restrictive policies

A 2018 study of 22 EU countries (Dumont & Liebig, OECD/European Migration Network) found that immigrants and refugees are not more likely to commit crime than locals when adjusted for poverty, unemployment, and social exclusion.

A large‑scale study published in 2025 by the Ifo Institute in Germany analysed police data from 2018–2023 and found:
No correlation between a higher proportion of foreigners (including refugees) in a district and its overall crime rate.
The researchers noted that migrants — like many people in other population groups — tend to live in urban areas, which already have higher crime rates overall, making it look like migrants are over‑represented when they are simply living where crime tends to be higher for all residents

Independent summaries by migration research networks and academic blogs conclude:
Long‑term, large‑cross‑national studies do not find a strong statistical relationship between immigration and overall crime.

Sometimes localized studies show specific correlations (e.g., property crime in isolated contexts), but these are usually explained by socio‑economic factors like poverty, lack of work, limited integration, discrimination, and settlement patterns, not by migration status per se.

US and Canada comparisons: Immigrant populations, including refugees, often have lower crime rates than native-born populations, especially for serious violent crime.