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title: ""Yes, immigrants to Sweden do commit more crimes than people born in…"
date: 2017-02-22
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# "Yes, immigrants to Sweden do commit more crimes than people born in…

*February 22, 2017 · Facebook*

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[http://reason.com/archives/2017/02/21/trump-peddles-fake-news-about-crime-in-s](http://reason.com/archives/2017/02/21/trump-peddles-fake-news-about-crime-in-s){target="_blank"}
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\"Yes, immigrants to Sweden do commit more crimes than people born in Sweden, in contrast to countries like the United States, where immigrants commit less crime than the native-born. That\'s partly because refugees to Sweden are much poorer and less educated, and because they have a much harder time finding a job. The Swedish economy has been liberalized over the last two decades, but we\'ve made exceptions for the labor market, which still makes it difficult to work.\
Sweden has more registered sex offenses than other countries. Sweden has made a conscious effort to get women to report any offense, whereas countries like Saudi Arabia and Mozambique do everything to stop women from reporting.\
The definition of rape has been extended to include sexual abuse not considered rape in other countries. In the year that change was made the number of rape offenses increased by 66 percent! If a husband rapes his wife every day during the last year, this is filed as 365 separate cases in Sweden, not as one case, as in most countries (or zero, as in Saudi Arabia) to make the crime more visible in statistics and in the debate.\
Last year there were 135 homicides in Washington D.C., population 670,000. That\'s 30 more than in the whole of Sweden, population 10 million.\"
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