The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
Questions tagged [immigration]
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In the US, are illegal immigrants more likely to commit crimes?
Trump has claimed numerous times that part of the reason we need to close the border is that the illegal immigrants are prone to crimes. I want to check these claims. Are illegal immigrants more prone to committing crimes then the average US…
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Were illegally immigrating children held in cages during the Obama administration?
Were children separated from their parents when they were caught on the Mexican border by US officials as illegal immigrants before Trump's introduction of zero tolerance immigration policy?
I wasn't able to find other source of that information…
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Is this Swedish government pamphlet a guide for men who have married underage girls?
From this tweet, by a tweeter who claims to be located in Sweden:
No Joke: Sweden’s board of health and welfare and the migration authority just released this pamphlet called “information to the person who is married to a child”, meant to help…
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Did millions of illegal immigrants vote in the 2016 USA election?
According to president elect Donald Trump, millions of people voted illegally:
In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally
I suppose referring to…
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Will the United Nations global compact on migration make it a criminal offense to criticize migration?
Liberty Nation and the Sunday Express cite MEP Marcel de Graaff from the Dutch Party for Freedom as saying:
“One basic element of this new agreement is the extension of the
definition of hate speech. The agreement wants to
criminalize migration…
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Are there shanty towns in Paris?
Recently I started to see many images of shanty towns in Paris, supposedly created by immigrants.
One included below is especially popular. Text says:
Meanwhile in Paris
Is this image true?
If yes, where is it? If no, is there a real problem with…
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Do the Swedish police have a special code for immigrant crimes?
An article I read today asserts the Swedish police have a special 'code 291' for crimes committed by muslim immigrants. This code would be used to 'bury' crimes such as sexual assault by refugees. A total of +/- 5000 crimes are supposed to have been…
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Do one quarter of Swedes named 'Ali' have a criminal record?
I saw on Reddit that a site called Sputnik News reported that one-fourth of people named Ali in Sweden have a criminal record. I researched a little bit but couldn't find any other source validating this claim.
Is this true?
Source:…
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Are 2 million non-citizen Hispanics illegally registered to vote in the United States?
A large number of non-citizen Hispanics, as many as 2 million, were illegally registered to vote in the U.S., according to a nationwide poll.
The National Hispanic Survey provides additional evidence for use by anti-voter fraud conservatives and…
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Did the Mexican Government publish a manual for how to illegally enter the US?
On donaldjtrump.com, Trump writes
For many years, Mexico’s leaders have been taking advantage of the United States by using illegal immigration to export the crime and poverty in their own country (as well as in other Latin American countries).…
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Did President Obama institute immigration restrictions in 2011 that were similar to Trump's Jan 2017 immigration restrictions?
Following Trump's recent executive order restricting movement from seven selected nations, some proponents of Trump's actions point out that in 2011 President Obama instituted similar restrictions on Iraqi nationals for similar reasons (ie1, ie2,…
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Are there 2-3m illegal migrants with criminal records in the USA?
President-Elect Trump has said that he plans to deport or jail between 2 million and 3 million illegal migrants in the USA who have criminal records.
US President-elect Donald Trump has said he will deport or jail up to three million illegal…
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Drop in IQ due to immigration?
An alt-right web site, "Red Ice" (apparently belonging to Henrik Palmgren), proposes that there's a nearly worldwide decrease in IQ due to immigration. The Red Ice piece apparently originated from unz.com so clearly this story was more widely…
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Is Sweden experiencing a "rape epidemic?"
The US think-tank, the Gatestone Institute - along with many conservative web-sites, has claimed that rapes in Sweden have gone up because of the influx of refugees from the Middle East.
Forty years after the Swedish parliament unanimously decided…
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Were 3 million votes cast by non-citizens in the 2016 US presidential election?
Various websites are repeating the claim in this tweet, which says:
Completed analysis of database of 180 million voter registrations.
Number of non-citizen votes exceeds 3 million.
Consulting legal team.
and this tweet which says:
We have…
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