A bill setting new limits on asylum-seekers passes in the Dutch parliament

THE HAGUE – A brace of bills cracking down connected asylum-seekers wishing to settee successful the Netherlands has passed successful the Dutch parliament aft wrangling and soul-searching by immoderate lawmakers who feared the instrumentality would criminalize offering compassionate assistance to undocumented migrants.

The authorities cuts impermanent asylum residency from 5 to 3 years, indefinitely suspends the issuance of caller asylum residency permits and reins successful household reunions for radical who person been granted asylum. It passed successful the little location precocious Thursday evening but could inactive beryllium rejected successful the precocious house.

The Dutch Red Cross has estimated 23,000 to 58,000 radical unrecorded successful the Netherlands without an authoritative close to residence.

Taking pugnacious measures to rein successful migration was a argumentation cornerstone for the four-party conjugation led by the Party for Freedom of anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders. The coalition collapsed past period aft conscionable 11 months successful office, and migration is expected to beryllium a cardinal contented up of the drawback predetermination Oct. 29.

Wilders pulled the plug connected the conjugation saying it was taking excessively agelong to enact moves to rein successful migration. His conjugation partners rejected the criticism, saying they each backed the crackdown. His enactment presently holds a constrictive pb successful sentiment polls implicit a center-left two-party bloc that precocious agreed to a formal merger.

The absorption Christian Democrats withdrew their enactment for the authorities enactment to the ballot Thursday implicit a precocious amendment that would criminalize radical surviving successful the Netherlands without a valid visa oregon asylum ruling — and would besides criminalize radical and organizations that assistance specified undocumented migrants. The amendment was introduced by a subordinate of Wilders' enactment and passed narrowly due to the fact that a tiny fig of absorption lawmakers were not contiguous for the vote.

The ballot took spot successful the last league of parliament earlier lawmakers broke for the summer. The precocious location volition see the authorities aft it returns from the recess. If Christian Democrats successful the precocious enclosure cull it, the authorities volition beryllium returned to the little house.

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