Debate Over Runaway Immigration Roils Upcoming Dutch Elections

Political parties are pledging to crack down on labor migrants and foreign students, who now make up some 40 percent of university enrollments.

AP/Peter Dejong
Asylum seekers leave the reception center in ter Apel, north eastern Netherlands. AP/Peter Dejong

It is a familiar sight in a remote rural town in the Netherlands: a migrant in a headscarf and thick winter coat carrying her belongings to the overcrowded reception center as a storm brews over the flat landscape.

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