cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52518366
In the Netherlands, commercial companies such as hotel chains, holiday parks, and cruise ship rental companies are earning good money from this crisis. A thriving market has emerged, where substantial profits can be made from emergency solutions, while the quality of care is often substandard.
The reception crisis in the Netherlands is not caused by a particularly high influx of asylum seekers. This demographic has fluctuated around 55,000 per year since 2022, following a temporary dip between 2016 and 2021.
The crisis is caused by the closure of asylum reception centres.
A hotel room for an asylum seeker costs the COA an average of €250 per night, or €91,000 per year, while Fletcher advertises to regular hotel guests and tourists, with hotel stays for less than €50 per night.
The newspaper AD previously uncovered that the COA was spending €110,000 a day to rent a cruise ship to house refugees and newspaper NRC revealed how savvy entrepreneurs profited from asylum housing on river ships by exploiting cheap migrant labour.
An investigation by Investico journalists revealed how commercial companies turned medical care in asylum centres into a profit model, supplying doctors and nurses at exorbitant rates.
There is no asylum crisis in any part of Europe. Stop claiming there is.
The official numbers of asylum seekers aren’t even half of what they were back in 2009 when we had a real asylum crisis.
It is fabricated by the alt-right to be able switch governments into crisis mode and push through laws without them going through other aspects of the government to be validated. Also to make people more xenophobic through lies.
It happened in Hungary, Italy, and every other alt-right government. But it are complete lies spread by Russia.
It is fascist propaganda. Stop spreading it.