On: Expanding Fact Checking at Google

[croon]

It's the same year as the refugee stats I posted.

[leereeves → croon]

But not relevant to the effects of the massive increase in immigration in 2015 and 2016.

[croon → leereeves]

https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/About-the-Migration-...

You're right in that there is a spike in 2015, but the 2014 stats are more than twice as high as 2016.

And regardless of which, it's completely relevant if we want to measure immigration as a factor on crime.

[leereeves → croon]

I have a hard time reconciling those numbers with what's reported in the media.

Half as many applications in 2016 as in 2013?

Those are only "asylum" applications...could they be processing people under other categories now?

[croon → leereeves]

Not unless you're interested in work permits.

What media are you referring to?

This is literally the Swedish equivalent of the USCIS. If you rather listen to your preferred outlet reporting otherwise, then bias is certainly at large.

[leereeves → croon]

I've never heard any media (of whatever bias) report either that Sweden stopped immigration, cutting asylum to half the level of 2013, or that refugees have ceased trying to immigrate to Sweden.

If either of those are true, that would be a story I'd like to read.

Has anyone reported that?

I'd like to know why those numbers fell. Did Sweden stop immigration? Did refugees stop coming? Are refugees being admitted in some other way, not counting as asylum?

Edit:

I found an article in Foreign Policy from over a year ago. According to them, Sweden closed the door.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/10/the-death-of-the-most-ge...

Interesting that the media continues to chide Trump and laud Sweden, if they've both done the same thing.

[croon → leereeves]

> Interesting that the media continues to chide Trump and laud Sweden, if they've both done the same thing.

Strawman.

Either he claims Sweden has immigration problems, which data suggests against, or he suggests Sweden has an immigration problem but they stopped immigration. So which is it?

Either one makes Trump look like an idiot.