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    Dutch election candidates make migration a key campaign issue in the crowded Netherlands

    by Mike Corder Nov 12, 2023 4 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

    It is a familiar sight in this remote rural town: 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.

    For many here and across this nation once known as a beacon of tolerance, it is too familiar.

    “Immigration is spiraling out of control,” Henk Tapper said while visiting his daughter in Ter Apel two weeks before the Netherlands votes in parliamentary elections on Nov. 22.

    Candidates across the political spectrum are campaigning on pledges to tackle migration problems that are crystallized in Ter Apel, struggles to accommodate large numbers of asylum-seekers.

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