In The Netherlands, Muslim Economic Migrants Housed on Cruise Ships

The Netherlands has lost control of its borders. It must take in the quota of “asylum seekers” assigned to it by the EU. Within the Netherlands, cities and towns must take in the number of those claiming “asylum seeker” status that the national government charges them with accepting. The number of these migrants keeps growing, far outpacing the number of available housing units, so now the Dutch government has resorted both to building new housing, not for the Dutch poor, but for those “asylum seekers” who are, in truth, Muslim economic migrants, and also to putting some migrants on cruise ships, where they continue to live in expensive quarters paid for by Dutch taxpayers. As keeps happening, the Dutch government finds itself spending far more on immigrants than it had planned for. In January 2023, the Dutch Court of Audit released a scathing report, claiming that the Dutch government had overspent on migrant settlement for 21 of the last 23 years. In 2022, 400,000 new immigrants arrived in the Netherlands. Who will pay for them? How many come with no money and no marketable skills? And how many come precisely to take advantage of all of the benefits provided by the Dutch welfare state, rather than having any intention of working hard, at low wages, as other, non-Muslim, immigrants have done before them? The Dutch have now run out of places to house them, which is why they have been placed even on luxury liners and luxury hotels. More on this immigration catastrophe can be found here, in a story from June that unfortunately remains ongoingly relevant: “Dutch taxpayers charged for another chartered cruise ship to house 1,500 migrants in Rotterdam,” by Thomas Brooke, Remix News, June 22, 2023:

The Dutch government has chartered another cruise ship to accommodate up to 1,500 refugees in the port of Rotterdam as the country struggles to cope with the housing demand following a high number of new arrivals.

The MS Silja Europa, a German-built vessel that is the tenth-largest cruise liner in the world, will dock in the Dutch city and house refugees while the local government constructs 1,125 flexible homes and converts office buildings into another 375 homes for the migrants, paid for by the Dutch taxpayer.

The accommodation is reserved for status holders. These are refugees with a temporary asylum residence permit who are entitled to housing in the country. They are allocated a municipality that is obligated to provide adequate housing, and the offer of accommodation must be accepted by the status holder as per the conditions of their residence permit.

The accommodation that is provided these so-called “asylum seekers” (in reality, they are overwhelmingly Muslim economic migrants from the Middle East and North Africa) is often in hotels, far more luxurious than anything these Muslim migrants have at home, but even so, there have been reports of Muslim migrants complaining about having to share rooms, about the quality of their food, and even about their “boredom.” Many Dutch poor would be delighted to have the accommodations provided to these economic migrants, but those Dutch people are being pushed to the back of the line as the migrants are taken care of first, both with new housing, and with temporary shelter in hotels and on cruise ships.

Rotterdam has been ordered by the Dutch government to receive more than double the number of refugees it accommodated last year after an influx in the number of new arrivals. Last year, the city found homes for 861 newcomers, this year that figure has increased to 1,795.

Rijnmond, a local television broadcaster in Rotterdam, called the increase in the number of new arrivals a “problem,” because if the city meets its target, “there will be less room for other Rotterdammers looking for a house, including vulnerable target groups and entry-level home buyers.”

After all, there is only a limited amount of social housing available. This would increase the wait time for a home seeker even further,” its report added.

Alderman Faouzi Achbar is preparing for the new arrivals, which the city expects imminently. Regarding longer-term accommodation, Achbar believes that 500 flexible homes can be built this year with the remainder completed in 2024, meaning some refugees could spend more than 18 months on board the ship before they are relocated.

Think of the torture. An all-expenses paid 18 months, or maybe longer, spent on a luxury cruise ship, with food and medical care provided free, and as soon as brand-new housing is built, those “asylum seekers” can then be transferred to their new apartments with the new furniture, with food and medical care still provided for free by the government. They will continue to enjoy themselves in such settings, far better than anything they had in their home countries, while they wait for their asylum applications to be decided on. If the decision is favorable, they will remain in that housing. If not, they will be asked to leave the country, but enforcement of deportation orders is lax, and in the countries of Western Europe, around 90% of those subject to deportation refuse to comply, and simply disappear into the general population. What they then live on – presumably, the proceeds from crime – is anyone’s guess.

It is unclear where these flexible homes will be built, but Achbar explained that residents living in the vicinity of these locations will be informed “in good time,” although they do not appear to have the right to object or block the plans.

The Rotterdammers will not be told in advance as to where this housing for migrants will be built, and have no right to object to the government’s plans. They must accept, without objection, to having as their neighbors hundreds of Muslim migrants who exhibit much higher rates of criminality than the native Dutch, including street muggings, house burglaries, rapes, and murders. But both the EU and the Dutch government insist that Diversity is Good. Only the bigoted and the Islamaphobic will object to this ever-larger influx of Muslim migrants.

“I think we have to be creative,” Achbar said when asked how Rotterdam will continue to fulfill its obligations to accommodate greater numbers of refugees in the future….

“I think we have to be creative.” In other words, Faouzi Achbar (judging by his name, he is himself a Muslim immigrant, or the son of one) hasn’t the faintest idea as to how Rotterdam will “fulfill its obligations” to house and care for these economic migrants posing as “refugees.” These “obligations” were incurred by whom? The Dutch voted to join the EU, but never to accept the quota of migrants now imposed on it by Brussels. Why do the Dutch have an “obligation” to take in anyone at all, much less people whose presence is certain to make life more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous, for the indigenous Dutch? When will the Dutch voters rebel against this state of affairs, and like people in Hungary and Poland, simply refuse to accept the migrants that the EU wants to saddle them with?

Why must migrants be accommodated so expensively on cruise ships and in four-star hotels? Can’t the Dutch government build quite quickly spartan barracks to house these “fortune seekers,” as Geert Wilders so aptly names them? Why encourage them to think that they will be provided for so lavishly? And a larger question presents itself. Why have the Dutch allowed themselves to be pressured by the EU to take in so many “refugees”? Is this what they intended, when they gave up part of their sovereignty to the EU? Perhaps each member state of the EU should hold a national referendum to see if their people want to continue to have the EU assign a migrant quota to them, or want instead to opt out of the EU-wide system that distributes these Muslim migrants to its members as bureaucrats in Brussels decide? And if, as I suspect, they vote to opt out, perhaps they will go a necessary step further, and decide to close their borders, not to all migrants, but to Muslim migrants, who, after all, are taught to regard the indigenous peoples of Europe as “the most vile of created beings.” How is it possible to integrate people who are taught to believe that? European countries have in the last three decades taken in tens of millions of Muslim migrants. Their peoples can see the unhappy results. It’s time to call a halt.