Asylum seekers who complain that their cases are not processed quickly enough will be paid at least 55 million euros through 2024. This is what outgoing State Secretary Eric van der Burg (Asylum) reported to the House of Representatives, which has repeatedly asked for clarification on this matter.
Some 55 million euros in penalties are expected to be paid through 2024, but that is the best-case scenario. The VVD secretary of state also reports expecting a new spike in "inflow" of asylum seekers after August, bringing the total to 70,000 this year. So the "straitjacket problem" will also only increase. It could total more than 20,000 cases. In mid-May, the Court of Audit calculated that 34 million has already been paid out to asylum seekers between 2020-2022. This is despite the fact that the government has accommodated itself by extending the decision period at the IND from six to 15 months.
But should the judge not agree to this extension, "the amounts for the periodic penalty payments will continue to increase," Van der Burg already prepared the Chamber. Earlier, he revealed that in the period from 2017 to 2022, 43 million euros have already been paid out in penalty payments. So that will only increase in the coming period. The maximum for a penalty payment is 1442 euros per case, but one asylum seeker can file multiple cases, so that for a handy asylum seeker the profit can amount to tens of thousands of euros.
This while the litigating asylum seekers include virtually hopeless Algerians and Moldovans. According to Van der Brug, "nuisance causing" (read: criminal) Algerians in Ter Apel are now being treated more quickly. The goal is within four weeks, and if "nuisance still exists" even within two weeks. However, this "catch-up" is again subject to court approval.
"Ever since 2019, the SGP has been calling attention to the absurd situation that asylum seekers can 'profit' from or abuse the malaise at the IND with huge amounts of money," SGP MP Bisschop fulminates, reports De Telegraaf. "Other EU countries also do not have such a fine system." The SGP MP wants the penalty regulation to disappear. According to the Council of State, however, abolishing judicial penalty payments violates European law. Yet other countries such as Denmark do manage to clamp down on immigration.
The tens of millions in injunctions, as exasperating as they are, pale into insignificance compared to the many billions that immigration costs annually anyway. They do, however, make clear the extent to which immigrationism, the globalist ideology that people have no roots and that you can slide them, just as it suits, like pawns across the board of the world, leads to the impoverishment of the host country, especially of the original population.
Added to this is the fact that many asylum seekers come from Islamic countries, while Islam is hostile to Christian Dutch culture. The experience of the recent large-scale riots by Islamic youth in France has once again highlighted the risks associated with uncontrolled immigration of Islamists. Although things remained calm in the Netherlands, the French riots were already spreading to Brussels.
This article first appeared on the website Culture Under Fire of our friends at Civitas Christiana Foundation. We have reproduced the article with permission.