Keijzer does not know whether asylum laws will pass: 'Week of truth'

It concerns the introduction of two asylum laws: the Asylum Emergency Measures Act and the dual status system. The CDA, among others, has hinted that it will vote against the dual status system: the party supports the idea of ​​the law, but according to party leader Henri Bontenbal, it will lead to chaos in this form. Without the CDA, support in the Senate is uncertain.

In the dual status system, a distinction is made between people who flee because they are in danger in their country due to ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion, and people who flee from war and (natural) violence. Asylum seekers from the latter group can return when peace has returned and therefore receive fewer rights. This distinction does not currently exist.

Minister Keijzer - who has recently also been responsible for asylum - hopes to allay the unrest and states that she will send several letters this afternoon explaining how the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) can implement the so-called 'two-status system'. Keijzer wants this to happen immediately, but according to the IND this will lead to major problems. After all, a major revision of the working method is already coming, when the European migration pact comes into effect next year.

The service does not want to implement two major adjustments so close together. CDA member Bontenbal supports the service and wants the dual status system to come into effect next year.

There is no white smoke yet, says caretaker minister Mona Keijzer:

Political reporter Floor Bremer: "Of the two laws that are now before us, it is most likely that David van Weel's law - the asylum emergency measures law - has the greatest chance of success. The PVV has namely submitted the three requests it has to make the laws stricter to Mona Keijzer's laws. She advised against all three, she said in the debate. The question is what the PVV is going to do with this. Support from that party is needed for a majority."

"Behind the scenes, Mona Keijzer was very positive in the debate about what the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) can handle. Keijzer would prefer the law that regulates the dual status system to come into effect on January 1. But the already overloaded service that determines who may and may not stay, would prefer it six months later. At the same time as European legislation. Keijzer said in the debate that she is not in favor of that, and that the IND informed her that it could also be done earlier.

It is a slight twist of what the IND said. They informed the minister that they will implement the political decision that the House will take. But that the IND still prefers - in order not to get into trouble - to align it with European legislation as of 1 June."