The mayor of the municipality of Cranendonck, Roland van Kessel, is not pleased with the attempts of his own VVD to delay or stop the dispersal law. “I am not happy with this,” says the mayor, who has an asylum center in his own municipality with 1,500 residents. According to the mayor, the dispersal law, which should allow asylum seekers to be better distributed across all municipalities in the country, is necessary to ‘make groups and problems smaller and more manageable’.
This is how Van Kessel responded in the TV program Nieuwsuur to the proposal of VVD faction leader Dilan Yesilgöz. She submitted a motion to temporarily shelve the distribution law.
Of the 1,500 residents in the asylum center in Budel, about a hundred cause nuisance. This often involves shoplifting or intimidating store employees.
Put nuisance perpetrators together correctly
According to vigilantes in Budel, who deal with the nuisance perpetrators on a daily basis, there is no point in spreading the word. “Then you spread the problems. Someone who causes nuisance already costs a lot of time,” says a man in the current affairs programme. He advocates bringing together the perpetrators of nuisance. The residents who do not cause problems can be distributed across the country.
Other residents of the municipality believe that the dispersal law should be introduced. “The 1,400 people are also affected by the hundred who cause problems. If all municipalities help, integration will go much better.”
Mayor now hopes for Senate
Mayor Van Kessel does not want to say what he thinks about the fact that a fellow party member is trying to torpedo the law. “I don’t care who wants it. What matters to me is that the residents of Cranendonck will not benefit if the law is not passed.” Van Kessel hopes that the law will still be adopted in the Senate.
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