The minister is willing to have a criminalization of illegality only accepted after an advice from the Council of State. This has met an important condition for NSC and SGP, they let them know. They therefore support the stricter asylum legislation.
NSC MP Faith Bruyning appears to be dissident: she refuses to follow the party line and votes against. Yet the required majority in the Lower House was achieved there.
It is about the asylum measures law in which asylum permits are temporarily limited and family reunification is limited, and the two -state system, which makes a distinction between refugees fleeing for war and those who are personally prosecuted.
Chaos trumps around asylum laws on last day for political recess
Doubt
The NSC group had previously had doubts about the tightening of the PVV that came in the law that criminalizes an illegal assistance. Three MPs from GL/PvdA and the animal party (Timmermans, White and Teunissen) elected Keti Koti in Amsterdam on Tuesday above the mood of the tightening. NSC also voted against and as a result, criminalizing illegality is now suddenly in the asylum measures law.
The party wanted to know whether the criminalization of illegality also means that people who help illegal immigrants are in violation. It is mainly about ‘offering help or offering a bowl of soup’: “That should not be punishable,” said NSC MP Diederik Boomsma. He is happy with the minister’s commitment.
Timmermans stirs: ‘HUILLEEL’
GL/PvdA foreman Frans Timmermans showed his dissatisfaction loud and clear. He shouted through the room against NSC MP Diederik Boomsma words like ‘Huichelaar’ and ‘Do you already have your application for the PVV ready?’, Those people in the room at the Telegraaf say. He was included by shouting from the GL/PvdA group. Boomsma tells this newspaper that this does not affect him.
Van Weel: “Maintaining help by, for example, a church or the Salvation Army, not soon an issue”
In the answer earlier in the day, responsible asylum minister David van Weel (VVD) announced that he will rely on the implementing organizations such as the police, the OM and the case law to ‘give priority in practice with regard to those target groups where the departure interest is greatest’. This also concerns the possible persecution for helping illegal immigrants. But Van Weel says that “maintaining help by, for example, a church or the Salvation Army is not quickly discussed.”
On Thursday evening, after NSC and SGP demanded that black-and-white demanded that humanitarian aid for illegal immigrants should remain possible, he knows that this will be looked at after an advice from the Council of State.
The majority seems to be in sight
With the support of PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB, both laws were adopted in the Lower House. The SGP, FVD and JA21 are also proponents. In the Senate, an exciting follow -up is still waiting: the support of the CDA, among others, is needed. That party has stated that they will vote against the laws.