> By 2017, when Trump claimed that “crime in Germany is way up” because it had taken in “all of those illegals”, the number of overall recorded crimes was decre

> By 2017, when Trump claimed that “crime in Germany is way up” because it had taken in “all of those illegals”, the number of overall recorded crimes was decreasing. Last year, crime in Germany sank to an 18-year low. The Guardian would make a much stronger case if they showed how the per-capita crime rate of people with a migrant background is no higher than for other Germans. Possibly income adjusted, or looking only at non-property-related crime. Sure they refuted Trump's claim, but we shouldn't use Trump as a guide for these discussions anyway. That is if we buy into the blinkered view of looking at migration only via the economy and crime-rate.