Since the ‘strictest asylum policy ever’ start, 130,000 people have been added in our country: ‘All alarm bells should ring in The Hague’

As a result of immigration, the Netherlands has received as many residents as the city of Maastricht or Leiden in the past year. Since April 2024, more than 130,000 immigrants were added on balance, according to figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics. If just as many immigrants keep coming to the Netherlands as last year, the population will grow with millions of people in the coming decades. Demographers wonder: what is the wake-up call for the cabinet that promised to get ‘grip on migration’?

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