The Dutch Step Up

A fascinating story out of the Netherlands - via an article by Reuters - concerning a new Dutch government policy toward unsuccessful asylum-seekers who refuse to leave. The Council of State ruled as follows:

A Dutch high court on Thursday upheld a government policy of withholding food and shelter to rejected asylum-seekers who refuse to be repatriated, giving legal backing to one of Europe's toughest immigration policies.

The Dutch government "has the right, when providing shelter in so-called locations of limited freedom, to require failed asylum-seekers to cooperate with their departure from the Netherlands," a summary of the ruling said.

Dutch policy will likely put them at odds with the EU bureaucrats in Brussels. The EU refuses to face there is no way Europe can afford to take on the entire MENA population, or any significant portion thereof, as a welfare burden.