According to reader tooms the consequences of overpopulation in the Netherlands are now painfully visible. “We have an overcrowded asylum center, a housing market that is too tight, where status holders also have priority over the ‘ordinary Dutch person’, but also cultural differences that are sometimes not accepted on both sides.” Another reader agrees. “Houses for students, starters or seniors, there is a shortage of everything. How can we provide all those asylum seekers with a home every year? There is simply no more room, we are really full!”
Leendertsuur beer believes that there should not be an asylum stop eventually, but immediately. “In addition, applications from people from safe countries should not even be considered.” According to Dbutter it is currently a scandalous process in Ter Apel, referring to the enormous amount of refugees in the application center who even fought each other last week. “The government just pretends their noses are bleeding and refuses to take action.”
But is an asylum stop really so easy to achieve? asks Rzphy447 wonder. Don’t they just come back to the Netherlands en masse? Pessimist thinks so. “Who’s going to stop them? And is that allowed by Europe, refugee organizations? We have put ourselves in this situation and have no control over it anymore.”
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Ton9 thinks that there may be no need for an asylum stop, but there should be stricter checks on whether permit holders contribute to the economy. According to another reader, many of these people have been on benefits for a long time and they also get their entire family from their country of origin. “That needs to be monitored more closely. We absolutely have to help refugees, but they have to do something in return.”
Another reader also emphasizes that in his eyes the Netherlands is full, but we still have a staff shortage in almost every sector. “If asylum seekers fill these vacancies, I have no problem with it.”
ParanormalInvestigator thinks otherwise. “The Netherlands receives relatively few asylum seekers compared to other countries. But the Netherlands also has the largest housing shortage compared to other countries! That alone should be a reason to introduce an asylum ban. You cannot push your own people aside just to comply with the refugee treaties.” Also Andreschaap62 believes that only promising refugees deserve a place. “Stop catching half the world.”
‘Should have been there already’
According to reader Pjhmonnich the asylum ban should have been there years ago. “A lot of ‘asylum seekers’ come from countries where nothing is going on at all, but they hide all procedures for years. It is also not easy to turn off. So you have to prevent them from setting foot here in the first place.”
Another reader also thinks that an asylum stop should have been in place for years, he also thinks that “a reception in the region should have been arranged and financed by the EU years ago.”