Netherlands: Figures 'irrelevant' in immigration debate, says minister

Netherlands: Figures 'irrelevant' in immigration debate, says minister

Via DutchNews:
There is no point in calculating the effect of government efforts to cut immigration on the actual number of non-westerners arriving in the Netherlands, immigration minister Gerd Leers told a television show on Monday night.

Definitive figures are irrelevant because immigration is always affected by outside events, the minister said.

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