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| Dutch asylum-seekers will get to stay |
| 2007-05-27 |
| Some 25,000 asylum-seekers whose applications for refuge were rejected will be allowed to stay, the newly installed Dutch government said Saturday, reversing the previous administration's hardline immigration policy. The Cabinet approved the plan crafted by Deputy Justice Minister Nebahat Albayrak, the country's top immigration official, in the early hours of the morning after a marathon session Friday. Who was the genius that thought allowing a muslim to decide Holland's immigration policy was a good idea? "The foreigners who will be granted a permit on the basis of this ruling must find a place in Dutch society," the Cabinet said in a statement. "That means not only education and work, but also integration and housing." The amnesty will apply to asylum-seekers who arrived before April 1, 2001 and were found not to qualify but who remained in the country anyway. Rest at link |
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