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As long as the United States has been taking in immigrants, the immigrants have been taking flak - allegedly for lowering wages, for failing to assimilate, for spreading disease, for committing more than their share of crimes. And, throughout U.S. history, whenever Americans began to complain about immigrants and crime, it didn't matter much if the immigrants were here legally or illegally. All that mattered was that they were foreigners and, for many native, it followed from there, inherently menacing. That's what people used to say with frequency about the Germans, Chinese, Irish or Italians.
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The reason why people migrate to another country is to find greener pastures and not to commit crimes (assuming illegal migration isn't a crime). Though some indeed commit crime, it is likely that an immigrant would want to better his life in his or her new location than ruin the new beginning that the new country offers. I think it's just noticeable when an immigrant commit a crime as his or her ethnicity is stressed on news or on simple talks which therefore creates some sort of stereotyping on their minority group.

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A Nation of Immigrants — Only If They Assimilate

I am writing this column in Japan, a country whose crime rate is the lowest among countries with large populations. I asked my Japanese translator, a middle-aged woman, what she thought. “Why is there is so little crime in Japan?” I asked. Without taking a moment to reflect, she responded, “Because we don’t allow immigration.” Anyone who visits Japan is struck by the ethnic homogeneity of the nation. If you meet a Caucasian, a black or a Hispanic in Japan, you can be all but certain that the person is visiting or studying there, not a citizen. Likewise in the… Ref. Source 3q.

Crime and Immigrants Related

Yes, this what I wrote in another topic. It's harder for immigrants to assimilate in Germany, France, Japan, or elsewhere than it is here in the US because are all immigrants. We are all similar in our differences. The children of the newest group of immigrants will be like my mom and dad and the grandchildren will be like me, fully assimilated. I don't believe crime has as much to do with being an immigrant, I think that is part of our culture, unfortunately. More precisely, it's very much not Japanese to be a criminal… unless you are Yakuza and then it's organized, organized which is like most aspects of Japanese society.