Is the Netherlands Raising the White Flag?

Hat tip Dagelijkse Standaard. Translation by Fousesquawk.


“It’s no use, Geert. Let’s go have a beer.”

Here is the latest depressing news out of the Netherlands, where the Parliament has been advised in a report that there is nothing to be done about the immigration mess because it’s just too expensive.

https://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2020/07/advies-vluchtelingenverdrag-over-immigratiebeleid-niks-aan-te-doen-en-is-ook-veel-te-duur/

Refugee Commission advice on immigration policy: “Nothing can be done, and it is much too expensive”!
-Wout Willemsen, 5 July 2020

Can anything be done with the immigration policy? The answer to the question is to be found in the advice that was sent July 3 from the ministry to the Second Chamber (Parliament), and is written in response to the investigation into the revision of the UN refugee treaty. July 3 is the day the summer recess  begins….Not so surprising because the conclusions are sad: “We can’t do anything, or it is too expensive.”

Dr Jan van de Beek has a nice Twitter thread set up where he manages to expose the core of the document (and its problems).

Tweet: (Inset)

1/6. It is noteworthy that this investigation into the revision of the UN refugee treaty, announced in the 2017 coalition agreement, will be sent to the Second Chamber on July 3- the day the summer recess begins
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In the document, numerous fallacies are found, mixed with half-truths. The conclusions drawn are the following: “To adjust immigration policy costs a lot of money and is not worth it. Adjusting the UN refugee treaty costs too much (diplomatic) effort, so you also should not want to. And actually, we are all delivered to our fate, and migration is a kind of natural force that we can’t do anything against.”

This is outright nonsense, naturally, but the idea of border controls is bombarded with images of North Korea, military zones, and the Iron Curtain. And later, there is suddenly talk as if it will now be “permanently closed borders”. It makes no sense, of course, but the message is clear: Very scary! So we have to continue to try to make agreements with untrustworthy countries then everything will be fine (perhaps, over time).

The cabinet will not do anything about it and also doesn’t want to do anything. They just follow this advice. It is so simple.
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Fousesquawk comment: How expensive are the Dutch lives that are being lost to these migrants? How expensive was the massacre at the Utrecht tram stop? How expensive are the murderous Moroccan gangs?

“Migration is a natural force”? No, legal and controlled immigration is a natural force, but countries can regulate it and enforce their borders.

Only if they have the will.