The Balance After Half a Year of Border Controls: of the 80,000 People Checked, 360 Were Refused

saarbruecker-zeitung.de

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Because the controls cost time and money, one in three commuters is thinking about changing jobs. Companies complain about additional costs. Stakeholders are "alarmed".

Algemeen Dagblad

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Since the start of border controls on 9 December, 80,000 people have been checked. Of these, 360 were refused ‘because they did not meet the entry requirements’. Strikingly, in the first three months of the controls, twice as many people were refused as in the last three months. This is evident from a letter from outgoing Minister of Justice David van Weel to the House of Representatives.

De Telegraaf

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The border controls that have been introduced yield little. In six months, the Royal Marechaussee (KMar) has checked more than 80,000 people at the borders with Belgium and Germany. The yield is meagre: only 360 people have been sent back immediately. However, outgoing Minister Van Weel (Asylum, VVD) wants to expand the powers of the KMar to be able to act more often.

mdr.de

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On the instructions of the Federal Minister of the Interior, asylum seekers have been rejected since the beginning of May. A court declared this illegal in one case. The number of rejections is low.

gelderlander.nl

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Since the start of border controls on 9 December, 80,000 people have been checked. Of these, 360 have been refused ‘because they did not meet the entry conditions’. Strikingly, in the first three months of controls, twice as many people were refused than in the last three months.