Tens of Thousands of Additional Asylum Places Before Mid-2027?

Tom Russcher MP (FVD) puts down Parliamentary Questions

Municipalities across the Netherlands will have to create tens of thousands of additional reception places, according to projections published by the new Minister for Asylum and Migration, Bart Van den Brink (CDA). In less than a year and a half, Van den Brink states that 38,000 new reception places will need to be built. These figures appear to contradict the broadly supported ambition to limit asylum inflow. The cabinet’s anti-migration rhetoric therefore seems little more than empty words.

FVD Member of Parliament Tom Russcher has submitted parliamentary questions to obtain clarification about the new cabinet plans and to push for a significantly stricter asylum policy.

Written questions from Tom Russcher MP (FVD) to the Minister for Asylum and Migration regarding the projection of tens of thousands of additional asylum reception places.

• Are you aware of the report stating that nearly 38,000 additional reception places for asylum seekers must be created before mid-2027?
• How does this enormous expansion of asylum reception align with the new cabinet’s promise to limit asylum inflow?
• Why are municipalities being compelled to create reception places when many are already facing a severe housing shortage for their own residents?
• Is the minister prepared to repeal the dispersal law, now that it appears this law is leading to further pressure on municipalities and society?
• Does the minister agree that the Netherlands should close its borders as long as there is no solution to the current reception crisis?
• How does the minister explain that his predecessor, Mona Keijzer (BBB), refused to publish these projections?
• How many of the current 77,500 reception places are occupied by people whose asylum applications have been rejected?
• How will the minister ensure that individuals whose asylum applications have been rejected are removed from the Netherlands as soon as possible?
• Does the minister agree with Forum for Democracy that the dispersal law is an undemocratic instrument that obliges municipalities and their residents to do something they did not ask for?
• Does the minister agree with Forum for Democracy that the Netherlands should prioritize its own citizens, particularly the homeless, people on waiting lists for social housing, urgent cases due to divorce and young people buying or renting for the first time, over asylum seekers?
• Is the minister prepared to revise Dutch asylum policy completely and bring it into line with the wishes of the majority of the Dutch population, which according to several polls favors a stricter asylum policy?