OPINION
The Sunak government’s final victory this week in its plan to deport ‘asylum seekers’ was long delayed – a sign of how activist judges and boat-chasing lawyers clog the machinery of democracy seemingly to their hearts’ content. Australia has seen more than its share of these unelected elitists thwarting the will of elected governments, from the left-stacked Refugee Review Tribunal to the recent High Court ruling that resulted in hundreds of foreign murderers, rapists and paedophiles being summarily turned loose to prey on the Australian community.
Now its the turn of the Netherlands to experience the frustration of seeing their democratic will thwarted by a cabal of elites no one voted for.
The Council of State has ordered the Dutch government to end its moratorium on asylum applications from the Palestinian territories.
Deputy justice minister Eric van der Burg froze applications in December, arguing that the “uncertain” situation in Gaza and the West Bank made it impossible to devise “resilient” rules.
But the country’s highest administrative court said conditions in the region were unsafe and rejected Van der Burg’s view that the situation was temporary, which could have justified suspending applications.
It ordered the minister to resume the processing of asylum claims by three Palestinians who brought the case as well as all other decisions that were frozen on December 19.
Great. Now the floodgates are open. One minute you’re throwing a chip to just one squawking seagull, the next you’re surrounded by the bastards. But at least the worst seagulls will do is crap on you. There’s a reason even Arab countries have refused to take in Palestinians for decades. Just ask Jordan and Egypt.
Geert Wilders, the leader of the far-right PVV, the largest of the four negotiating parties, has called for the borders to be closed to asylum seekers, while the VVD and BBB want the numbers to be reduced. The fourth party, NSC, says any rule changes must comply with international treaties and the Dutch constitution.
Dutch News
But the Dutch are far from the only European country who’ve had a gutful of ‘refugees’ from mostly the Middle East and Africa flooding their country, scarfing up welfare, refusing to integrate and sending crime rates – especially against women – soaring.
Even the left’s beloved Nordic countries.
The Danish government has not been shy about its goal of “zero” refugees in Denmark.
Last June, legislation was passed that would allow it to move asylum seekers to third countries outside the EU while their cases were processed.The controversial measure was heavily criticised by the European Commission and human rights groups, while questions were raised about its legality.
Here we go again.
Denmark was the first country to join the UN Refugee Convention in 1951. But recently, governments on the left and right have repeatedly tightened immigration laws.
Last year it began controversially revoking the residence permits of hundreds of Syrians from the Damascus area, arguing it was now safe for them to return.
BBC
That’s the funny thing about these ‘asylum seekers’: even when the war’s over, it’s near impossible to prise them loose from Western welfare and shove them back off home.
It’s also notable just how many countries they’re prepared to bypass, to reach the ones with, just coincidentally I’m sure, the most generous welfare systems.
Finland said on Monday it had become impossible to return asylum seekers who did not meet the criteria for protection and said that it might further restrict migrant entries from Russia following a jump in the number of applicants.
Over 500 asylum seekers, mostly from Yemen, Somalia, Syria and Iraq, arrived in Finland – an eastern outpost of the European Union – via Russia in the past two weeks.
Reuters
There’s no shortage of countries between Somalia and Russia where these barefaced grifters might have stopped, if ‘being safe’ was really their goal.
It’s almost as if their real motivation was purely economic.