The University of Amsterdam has published a study on the costs and benefits of immigration policies in The Netherlands, and it makes for some pretty shocking reading.
Not exactly surprising reading, but shocking because the costs of importing asylum seekers from third-world countries are even higher than you might have expected.
Persons from low-skill immigrant groups which commit violent crime at rates up to 17 times the native Dutch rate cost Dutch taxpayers over 10 times per year what the average Dutch household earns.
In most European nations these types of data were not collected or made available… https://t.co/bH6WmL2lV7
— i/o (@eyeslasho) January 3, 2024
The Netherlands, like most Western European countries, has been on a tear accepting a large number of “asylum seekers” from the third world, particularly from Africa and the Middle East. Some of this is because of…