Non-Western immigrants overrepresented in Dutch crime, welfare, and detention but government refuses to quantify net costs.
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Non-Western allochtonen overrepresented in criminal suspects per CBS data. Police devotes relatively more capacity to non-Western allochtonen than natives. Non-Western allochtonen comprise 50% of youth detention despite smaller population share. Non-Western allochtonen make up 22% of forensic care sector. Municipal funds allocate €639 million via minorities distribution factor. Government funds diversity programs targeting allochtonen with millions in budgets. Non-Western allochtonen overrepresented in truancy and school dropout. Low labor participation and poor incomes noted for non-Western allochtonen. Specific costs for migrant entrepreneurship and integration programs total millions. No tracking of tax contributions or benefits by immigrant origin due to privacy. Child benefits exported partly to non-Western countries but unlinked to recipients. Justice chain devotes extra capacity to non-Western allochtonen from crime overrepresentation. Budgets for alien removal and detention run tens of millions yearly. Education spending matches population share in primary but overrepresentation in vocational training. Government rejects ethnic cost accounting as irrelevant to policy evaluation.

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