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Originally Posted by Acajack
In any event, I am not sure "immigrants" as a broad reference group is the best indicator to use to answer this question.
Some immigrant (or "newcomer") groups have higher crime rates, and some have lower crime rates. It also can vary from city to city. The highest crime rates in Ottawa for example are found in certain "newcomer" groups and their kids.
We'd probably need more granularity in order to draw some meaningful conclusions, but then we'd run into dangerous non-PC territory.
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What do you mean non-PC territory? Just say what you know.
Immigrants in general causing crimes at a much lower rate than the native born is a long established verifyable fact in this country. I'd go even further (non-PC stuff if you will), check out the prison populations in Anglo-Canada, overwhelmingly WASP, locally born blacks and aboriginals, hardly any people born outside this country. The same can be said for welfare recipients, check out the lineups outside the social assistance offices in Toronto, overwhlemingly the same demographics as above. This is the value of a points based immigration system, a few more years of this free for all refugee influx from the Middle East and that may all change.