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Strict Asylum Laws on Shaky Ground in Senate; CDA Plans to Vote Against
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After a year and a half of wrangling about the "strictest asylum policy ever", the Lower House will vote tomorrow on the crown jewels of the outgoing Schoof cabinet: the two asylum bills. There is still no certainty that a stricter asylum policy will make it to the finish line after a few tumultuous days in The Hague. It has been almost impossible to make head or tail of it in the past few days: parties change positions at the last minute, sensi…
Asylum policy: On Thursday, the CDA will vote against the asylum emergency measures law. Criminalizing people who help others goes much too far for the party. Now…
The CDA will not agree to the stricter asylum laws of the cabinet. This has everything to do with the ‘accident’ whereby a PVV proposal to criminalize illegality was incorporated into one of the laws on Tuesday. The ‘strictest asylum policy ever’ therefore does not seem to be coming.
This episode of Rechts voor z’n Raap is full of political blunders, unintended victories and painful truths. While GL/PvdA celebrates at Keti Koti, their empty seats in parliament ensure a remarkable victory for the PVV: illegality becomes punishable. The CDA shows its weakest side and votes against stricter asylum laws — in the name of ‘humanity’.
The fear is real among undocumented people in Amsterdam and the organizations that help them. Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted in favor of an amendment by the PVV to criminalize illegality, but helping this group of people can also lead to punishment. Refugee support center ASKV, an organization that helps undocumented people, thinks it is 'pure symbolic politics'. "These people will not go home any faster because of these kinds of …
Strict asylum laws on shaky ground in Senate; CDA plans to vote against
The CDA will vote against both asylum laws proposed by the caretaker Cabinet on Thursday, party leader Henri Bontenbal said on Wednesday. This concerns both the emergency asylum measures bill and the two-status system. Support from the CDA is especially important for the bill to pass the Senate. For Bontenbal, the law has become "impassable" because the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, accepted two amendments on Tuesday.
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