In the case of Rotherham, I believe that most of those committing the crimes were not foreign; most were British born British nationals. Ethnicity is not the same as immigration status.
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replyThe question is: Would the crimes have been covered up by authorities if the predators were ethnically English and the victims were children of foreigners?
replyAnyone who's actually paid any attention to the many documented failings of the child protection services in those cases knows the answer to that question is "yes".
replyThe problem with that argument is that, IIRC, there is direct evidence that one reasons that the abuse was covered up was that authorities were afraid of being accused of racism and/or of stirring up ethnic tensions. I don't think that, to accept this, you need believe that CPS is always perfect when this issue is absent.
replyThis is one of the factors that lead to crimes not being better investigated at the time, but then fear of tensions would cases where the alleged perpetrators were white and the victims/witnesses non-white as in the OP's question. (And more generally, teenage girls from working class backgrounds got far less sympathy and far more scepticism than they should have done from the police and CPS and even social workers when they talked about being sexually exploited regardless of race. Certainly no evidence was found they were much more keen to listen to non-white victims or prosecute white people...)
replyThey covered up Jimmy Savile
replyCongratulations, you've corrected us on the usage of the word immigrant. Now can we return to the topic?
replyWhilst we're on Rotherham:
"...by men predominantly of Pakistani heritage" [0]
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-61868863
Their parents or grandparents were immigrants...
Their parents or grandparents didn't commit the crimes, though. We don't usually punish parents for the crime of their adult children.
replyThe topic was crimes committed by "foreign men", and your link refers to crimes committed by non-immigrants.
replySo it would seem that you're the one straying from the topic.