Exemplifying the overrepresentation of immigrant youth, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stressed that every fifth young man with a non-Western background born in 1997 had broken the law before he turned 21 years old. People from immigrant backgrounds who are tempted by crime must make a choice about their part in society, Immigration Minister Mattias Tesfaye said. We have a problem and we need to tackle it, and no, it's not society's fault", Tesfaye said. "Your kids are ruining their youth by wandering around and acting smart down by the kebab place or at the station. As of 2020, there are roughly 775,000 immigrants and their descendants in Denmark, a country of 5.8 million.

Source: Ethiopian News October 09, 2020 04:52 UTC