Friday, 18
April 2025 - 19:30
Parliament
tells migration minister to stop influx of undocumented labor migrants
Parliament
wants there to be an end to the “secret route” that illegal labor migrants from
countries outside the European Union are taking to get into the Netherlands, it
was stated on Thursday during a debate. The Labor Inspectorate is running into
more and more undocumented citizens during checkups at companies, Nieuwsuur
reported recently.
Some of them
are said to be abusing a registration intended for people who want to work or
study here for a maximum of four months. At this registration, called the
Non-residents Records Database (RNI), migrants are given a citizen service
number (BSN). They do not have to give a living address for this or explain why
they are staying in the Netherlands.
These
migrants are then able to work in the country. They are able to open a bank
account using their BSN or register a company at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.
Notably,
many of these illegal labor migrants are Brazilians and people from Georgia.
People traveling to the European Union from these countries for a short stay do
not need a visa to do so. They only need a passport.
In the
debate about forms of migration other than an asylum procedure, the VVD, PVV,
NSC, and SP asked the migration minister, Marjolein Faber, to do something to
combat this. These parties form a majority in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house
of Dutch parliament.
Michiel van
Nispen (SP) has said that the PVV minister is only making an effort to reduce
the asylum migration and is not looking at other forms of migration. He added
that she would be laying out a “red carpet” for knowledge and labor migrants.
Faber must "close down back routes as quickly as possible," the SP
member said.
Marina
Vondeling (PVV) is requesting that Faber deport the undocumented labor migrants
as soon as possible.
“We are all
in agreement that we need to combat this,” Faber said about it. But she pointed
out that the solution has to come from the NSC ministers Judith Uitermark
(Interior Affairs) and Eddy Van Hijum (Social Affairs and Employment).
“Well now
nothing is the minister’s responsibility,” Van Hijum responded in an outraged
manner. Faber said that these topics will be discussed in a debate between her
and Van Hijum at a later stage, to the displeasure of D66 and the SP.
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