According to State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Eric van der Burg (VVD), it is not yet certain that no asylum seekers will have to spend the night outdoors next summer due to a shortage of reception places.
“If I look at the figures I have and the analyses I have now, it will go well until mid-June.”
Given the current situation, Van der Burg said “things are not in order.” The state secretary said this in the television program WNL Op Zondag on NPO1.
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Van der Burg believes that the cabinet does not currently have the asylum policy in order:
“The moment we talk about people who may have to sleep in the grass and, on the other hand, we do not have enough reception places and are not sufficiently successful in sending people back to countries like Greece and Italy, things are not in order.”
According to Van der Burg, his spreading law (the “coercive law”), which is supposed to oblige municipalities to provide reception places, is necessary in realizing sufficient reception capacity.
“It is sticking plasters, until I have the spreading law with which we can create more capacity. You have to do something about the inflow, the reception, and the outflow.”
Asylum seekers will sleep outdoors again this summer? According to state secretary @ericvanderburg, things are going well until mid-June. “It’s band-aiding until I have the dispersal law that allows us to create more capacity,” he said. #WNL #WNLOpZondag pic.twitter.com/hYad514xSq
– WNL Op Zondag (@WNLOpZondag) May 14, 2023
