Originally Posted by
May90
It is done by creating a decent immigration system that focuses on taking in skilled workers, which are not prone to criminal activities. From what I've heard, Sweden has problems with it. The US, for example, is doing much better, and immigrants do not contribute to the crime much; illegals do, but dealing with illegal immigration is another problem entirely, and it is not something that can be stopped just by changing policies. Same goes for Canada, Australia, New Zealand.
Refugees, apparently, differ from skilled migrants drastically. Illegal immigrants too. But, since we are talking about immigrants in general, apparently saying that refugees/illegals contribute to crime is not the same as saying that immigrants contribute to crime: immigrants consist on many different categories, some of which prone to crime even less than the native population.