Amsterdam may make undocumented migrants homeless
The municipality of Amsterdam may evict undocumented people from reception locations of the National Aliens Facilities. That is what the judge in a summary proceedings private.
Amsterdam alderman Rutger Groot Wassink (Social Affairs, GroenLinks) has not been able to find a sustainable solution within 18 months for an undocumented 37-year-old Eritrean woman who has lived in the Netherlands for 11 years. That was the deal, but none were.
The judge’s decision means that Groot Wassink is acting lawfully. it means that the woman becomes de facto homeless. The judge places the responsibility on the woman herself.
From the verdict: ‘Madam’s accidentlessness will be a consequence of her own choice not to (declare) cooperate with her return to her country of origin.’
There has been an outcry on social media about this mess of things. ‘In the middle of winter and in the midst of a pandemic’, the municipality of Amsterdam makes vulnerable people homeless, says activist Sinne Göting on Twitter. and lawyer Jan de Vries talks about a ‘(potential) violation of the right to housing’.
There are still a number of lawsuits on the agenda about the eviction of reception locations where documented people are located and where there is formal reception, such as winter shelter of the bed–bad–broodprovision, the judgment said.