Minister rolls with muscles: The Block wants Palestinians to return

Now asylum seekers from the Palestinian Gaza strip not automatically be recognised, plays Maggie De Block (Open Vld) with the idea to have the files of already approved refugees from that region to review - and possible for them to send it back. Idea: show that they are not a 'softie'.

Until recently, you had as a Palestinian from the Gaza strip almost always asylum in our country. But on december 5, paste the Commissariat-General for Refugees and Stateless persons (CGRS) z'n guidelines, because the situation in Gaza is not for everyone "precarious" is called. Since then, watching the asieldienst file per file.

Minister The Block grabs the new directive for the CGRS to ask him whether they have the refugee status of Palestinians from Gaza may raise. This is clear from internal documents that this newspaper could be read. If the CGRS the green light turn on, can this mean that the recognized refugees of their status lose and our country will be turned off. At least: if they do not yet have five years of paper, because after that period, the right of residence is final.

When Maggie De Block, the portfolio Migration and Asylum took over from ex-state secretary Theo Francken (N-VA) she bought immediately its quota of 50 records per day. The minister will find that everyone raft asylum should be able to apply. Thereupon declared Francken that she the door openzette for single men from Gaza, who - encouraged by smugglers - mass strike. At the end of October was the counter at 1.909 applications. Thus are the Palestinians, after the Syrians the largest group of asylum seekers in our country. It is clear that Maggie De Block with her new manoeuvre, the perception would return that they have a (too) good-natured policy.