Netherlands: Mass immigration was rightwing policy, says Labour MP

Netherlands: Mass immigration was rightwing policy, says Labour MP

Via NIS News:
The mass immigration of Turks and Moroccans was the result of rightwing policy, and it is also the rightwing parties that are now responsible an influx of badly-integrated East Europeans, declares Labour (PvdA) MP Martijn van Dam.

"Fifty years after the wave of 'guest-workers', a flood of East Europeans is currently underway. Contrary to what people came to believe, the migration wave of the 1960s was not leftwing but actually rightwing policy," Van Dam wrote yesterday in an opinion article in De Volkskrant newspaper.

"Fifty years later, the rightwing shows it has learned nothing. Once again, the right wants to encourage immigration on the underside of the labour market, without wanting to invest in integration. It is shocking how history repeats itself."

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