That writes Fidelity today based on figures that the newspaper requested from the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA).
Just need more places
The fact that many shelter locations are closing at this time is a bad time. The recently introduced dispersal law means that there should be many more reception places for asylum seekers. By the middle of next year there should be 96,000 shelter places throughout the country.
According to the COA figures that Trouw writes about, 24,000 will expire this year because the contracts for emergency locations expire. That is 37 percent of all places there now, the newspaper writes.
This concerns 180 of the 326 locations that are closing their doors.
At the end of last month, RTL News calculated how many asylum seekers each municipality must accommodate according to the dispersal law. View here how many there are for your municipality.
However, due to the emergency shelter locations that are closing their doors, Trouw says that in the near future it will be ‘mop with the tap open’.
Ter Apel under the microscope
This week is an important moment for COA. Tomorrow, the judge will only allow a maximum of 2,000 asylum seekers in the reception center in Ter Apel. At the end of last week, there were still 2,200 people in the crowded complex.
From tomorrow onwards, the COA will be imposed a penalty of 15,000 euros for every day it receives too many asylum seekers, with a maximum of 1.5 million euros.
Outgoing State Secretary Eric van der Burg (Asylum) said last week that he is ‘not at all hopeful’ that it will be possible to get and, above all, keep the number of asylum seekers below 2,000. Not enough shelters are being created in the country, he said.
Van der Burg’s appeal to municipalities to arrange 5,500 shelter places within a few weeks also came to nothing. According to him, ‘nothing has changed yet’. “Not a single municipality has signed up.”
2024-02-19 04:00:08
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