Wilders Celebrates Asylum Seeker Crackdown Law Passing Dutch Parliament

Dutch anti-mass migration leader Geert Wilders celebrated as laws mandating a crackdown on asylum seekers in the Netherlands passed parliament, but warned there was more to be done. New laws criminalising being an illegal migrant passed the lower house of the Dutch parliament on Thursday because opposition members failed to turn up to the vote to oppose it. Among the provisions included in the bills and a last-minute amendment that considerably strengthened several areas of the proposed laws, the length of a temporary asylum status decision will be cut from five years to three, and the awarding of new asylum permits is being suspended “indefinitely”.