Disproportionate means abnormally high or low, conveniently ignoring the content of the point in favour of semantics.
It's not ignoring the content of your point, it's rejecting it
Disproportionate does not mean all
In the very next sentence, though, Covenant then suggests public policy might limit refugees based on these figures. Strikes me as a bit silly to essentially punish the entirety of a group based on the actions of a few.
Seems a bit silly to think people who don't want to live with higher violent crime are punishing refugees for having security concerns; the EU has conflated being an open door doormat with being humanitarian - a dangerous confusion
And furthermore - higher immigration rate increases the segregation between immigrants and natives, which increases poverty and crimerate.
We're not talking about normal immigration here, though, we're talking about refugees.
Criminality is correlated more with socioeconomic status than anything else (so age, education, and employment) and I agree, normal immigration requires policy that controls for that kind of thing.
PPE:
Yet when unintegrated migrant groups commit a disproportionate amount of crime, they are not to blame for it; instead it is the poorly-performing schools they are forced to attend, the lack of money in their pockets, and ultimately, the invisible yet apparently omnipresent 'systematic racism of modern society' that is apparently the real culprit.
Or it's just the fact that lower socioeconomic status is an indicator of higher crime. Perhaps the consideration should be on why they're not integrated and how to fix that? Best indicator for integration is employment. Creating more jobs'll also help the indigenous poor. Bonus.
Refugees, though, aren't normal immigrants. Immigrants are
going to somewhere; they have a destination in mind. Refugees are
fleeing from something; they just want to gtfo.
Refugees commit more crimes. That's a problem. They don't commit crimes because they're refugees though, so to punish all the refugees because a small number are committing crimes is patently ridiculous. They need to be integratred.
Integration doesn't happen right off the bat, though. It takes a long time. Stupid policies like Swedish police fearing doing their job because they might be seen as racist doesn't help. All that's going to do is make it feel like the authorities aren't going to do anything if a minority commits a crime, so vigilante justice is the way to go. Not a good idea.
Making them feel welcome is a start. Make sure they know the local language, provide them with an education (involving civics) so they can find a job or go onto further education. Get them involved in the local community. It's hard work and not every refugee is going to take to it. That doesn't mean the rest should be abandoned because of them.
