The Netherlands has reached the limit on the number of migrant workers who can enter the country. This is what the head of the Labor Inspectorate Rits de Boer said in an interview with de Volkskrant.
Inspector General De Boer says he sees many signs in the Netherlands that the country cannot handle even more migrant workers. He is referring, among other things, to homeless Poles who camp in tent camps between Scheveningen and The Hague. He is also concerned about construction sites where mattresses, sleeping bags and cooking stoves are found because the people who work there also have to sleep and eat there.
“Thousands more vans with a leaking fuel pump from Eastern Europe will not bring us any closer to our environmental goals,” says De Boer. “Another hundred thousand people per year for whom you cannot build houses because of the nitrogen restrictions has negative consequences for those people themselves, but also for the quality of life in our neighborhoods. Even more labor migration leads to even more miserable living and working conditions.”
De Boer makes his statements at the time when the four forming parties are negotiating about migration. If the number of migrant workers continues to grow unchecked, De Boer believes they will increasingly be found in “miserable living and working situations”.
“On paper, labor migration does lead to growth in gross domestic product, but there are all kinds of costs that are not priced in: extra pressure on the housing market, education, the energy grid, healthcare,” says De Boer. And: “Extra activity in one place can lead to pressure on the housing market in surrounding places.”
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