On May 26th the PVV, the largest party in the current Dutch government, released a 22 page document titled “De Grens is Bereikt” or roughly “The Boundary is Reached” in English.
The 10-point plan contained therein proposes to deal with the substantial levels of refugee, asylum, and irregular migration the Netherlands has experienced in recent decades. When I first heard about this document release I was skeptical, Geert Wilders party had been declining in the polls recently and I feared some sort of “soft around the edges” gimmick in order to deal with the fall in popularity—not so much because of Wilders himself but because here in Britain that is what right-wing parties have a history of doing: behave like progressives until the voter base becomes upset, and then pretend to be tough conservatives without changing any actual policy.
Instead what I found in the PVV document was a fascinating set of information and proposals designed to modestly reverse the Great Replacement in the Netherlands and restore some sense of order to Dutch society.
Reversing the Great Replacement: The Netherlands
The 22-page document begins with a declaration that the Netherlands must steeply restrict the “the inflow of (non-Western) foreigners” and that the country must sharply increase the outflow of those non-Western foreigners. This is a distinction that deeply matters to any Western nationalist and it’s a fantastic sign that a mainstream governing party is making this distinction in its policy.
It matters because the Netherlands is being transformed by mass immigration. Using Dutch government European Union statistics White Papers has shown in early work that 19.1% of the population of the Netherlands, or about 3 million people, are of non-Western origin. If we include Western immigrants then the non-Dutch share of the population of the Netherlands is a staggering 34%.
Holland: “We Hebben Een Serieus Probleem”
The child of a Belgian, Luxembourger or Frenchman can integrate into Dutch society in a single generation, but Moroccans, Turks, and other non-Western migrants have shown that integration does not take place on any large scale with such huge cultural and civilisational disparities. The Dutch have certainly taken notice.
The PVV document goes on to lay out a series of polling that show the native Dutch are truly ready to take their homeland back:
- 47% of the population feel that parts of their country “No longer feel like the Netherlands”.
- 52% of the Dutch are worried that the native Dutch will become a minority in their homeland.
- 53% of the population no longer wants to accept refugees from the Islamic world.
- 60% of the population feels “Islam does not fit in with Dutch Society”.
In order to address the political desire of the Dutch people to preserve their homeland the PVV document lays out a 10-point plan. I am going to go over each proposed measure and suggest a White Papers backed expansion upon them where necessary.
Measure 1: proposes the country close its land borders to asylum seeks. It states that 96% of would-be asylum seekers reach the country via Belgium and Germany, neither of which are in a state of war or conflict (unless you count ethnic minority riots).
This is an effective proposal, considering that in 2024 the Netherlands received some 44,000 asylum seekers and their family members.
The first WPs proposed expansion: would be to retroactively examine every refugee application since at least 2015 and revoke the residency rights of any refugee who:
1. Entered via a safe third country, and;
2. Who originates from a safe third country.
In 2024 alone 4.4% of asylum seekers came from Turkey, another 6.6% from Eritrea, and 3.3% from Afghanistan. None of these countries is currently experiencing conflict and in fact some are becoming safer! The AKP in Turkey is beginning a disarmament process and eventual integration into the country’s political institutions. There is no justification for allowing people from safe countries to remain in the Netherlands just as there was little justification for granting these so-called asylum seekers residency in the first place.
Measure 2: proposes the deployment of the Dutch army to patrol the borders and enforce border controls where necessary.
There is little White Papers or I could add to this proposal, it merely shows that PVV is serious about providing the necessary resources to enforce Dutch sovereignty after years of neglect and outright contempt for national frontiers. An attitude that plagues most of Europe’s progressive elite class.
Measure 3: a temporary stop to family reunification. The PVV argues that huge numbers of non-Western immigrants have overwhelmed Dutch social services, housing, and healthcare services. The document cites that nearly 12,000 family reunification applications were granted for refugees in 2024, or about a quarter of all asylum applications granted. Ultimately the PVV believes that a total stop to family reunification (even if temporary) will make the Netherlands an unattractive destination.
Measure 4: The PVV proposes forcing asylum seekers with residence permits to vacate asylum reception centres. The document proposes that these residents move out into the private market or find shelter with family they may have in the country.
Measure 5: the return of Syrians to Syria. The PVV wants to give any Syrian with a temporary residence permit six months to return to their home country or face an enforced removal. They claim some 60,000 Syrians fall into this category.
The WPs proposed policy expansion for measure 5 would be to begin a mass-review and visa cancellation of as many temporary visa holders as possible, not just Syrians. More than 750,000 non-Western temporary residents live in the Netherlands as of 2024, composing some 4.1% of the population. Only 20.8% of first residence permits issued in 2023 in the Netherlands were for reasons of employment, while 27.4% fell under the concerning and unspecified category of ‘other’, 34.4% of visas were for family reunifiction, and 17.4% were issued for students. Numbers were similar for 2021 and any other year I can find going back at least 10 years.
This would seem to indicate that of the 750,000 non-Western immigrants in the country only 150,000 are in the Netherlands for work purposes. This population is not only a struggle to culturally integrate, but they are also a fiscal disaster for the Netherlands. The cost cannot be born perpetually by the Dutch state or the Dutch people.
The now-adult children of working immigrants should be sent home, the Dutch government should continue its efforts to lower the number of foreign students, and every asylum seeker from a safe country should be sent home as soon as possible.
Measures 6 and 7 are highly related: the shut down of asylum reception centers and the near-complete cessation of welfare benefits and social housing for migrants.
Once again there is little I feel I can add to this policy, it is mere common sense that the nationals of a country should be put first for public services, housing, and welfare benefits where they need to exist.
Measure 8: deporting foreign criminals and making illegal immigration to the Netherlands a crime.
This is a particularly great proposal by the PVV. Instead of trying to differentiate between types of crime the PVV is proposing a single-strike rule. One criminal conviction will result in the expulsion of a migrant from the country.
This would be a significant contributor to remigration. Youth delinquency in the Netherlands is an incredible problem with youth crime rates in some neighbourhoods having reached 50% in years past and remaining high to this day.
We certainly think these policies should be expanded beyond non-citizens and illegal migrants, but more on that in measure 9!
Measure 9: proposes the denaturalisation and deportation of dual citizens who commit violent crime and sexual offenses in the Netherlands. A great proposal that would see tens of thousands of people expelled from the country, but it is not one that goes far enough.
White Papers is certain that this policy must be expanded further. Dutch nationality law allows for the revocation of citizenship when a naturalized immigrant commits an offense against the interest or security of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. As well as for fraud and deceit in the acquisition of Dutch citizenship. In the Netherlands, the number of fake identity documents used by immigrants is reaching all-time highs, while scam marriage and paternity networks operate across European borders and have led to the naturalization of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who should never have been admitted to the continent.
The PVV should make an organised effort out of trying to denaturalise the vast bulk of the 1.3 million dual citizenship holders in the Netherlands that are non-Western in origin. Half of these dual nationals are Turkish and Moroccan.
It should first broaden its criteria for potential denaturlisation candidates. Why should a drug dealer not be denaturalised and deported, they kill many thousands of Europeans each year? Similarly, property crime is not ‘nonviolent’ and often involves the forcible breaking, entering, and seizure of other peoples belongings, why shouldn’t it qualify a non-native for denaturalisation?
Second, the Netherlands should follow the example of the United Kingdom and allow for the denaturalisation for any criminal that qualifies for a foreign citizenship, whether Dutch born or not. This may seem like too-radical a move for some, but consider that 95% of people of Moroccan descent in the Netherlands visit Morocco and a staggering 61% visit the country yearly. Another data point worth bringing up is that more than half of all people with roots in Turkey or Morocco yet born in the Netherlands do not identify as Dutch while 70% overall maintain contact primarily within their ethnic communities.
Measure 10: supporting the police mission to quell riots. The piece specifically specifies pro-Palestine demonstrations that have devolved into violence or when migrants visit randomised violence on the native Dutch during cultural festivals and events.
It is likely that if fully implemented in their proposed fashion and enforced with proper vigour the PVV policies would result in the expulsion and deportation of perhaps 250,000-350,000 people from the Netherlands, not awful but not great either. Net migration in recent years has far surpassed that figure on numerous occasions. The PVV must expand its vision for remigration if it is going to seriously reverse the Great Replacement in the Netherlands.
This requires that the PVV look at implementing a serious and wide ranging voluntary remigration program. If the Dutch government (of which the PVV is the largest part) hopes to deal with cultural decline, right the fiscal ship, and prevent the native Dutch from becoming a minority in their homeland than it must make provisions to give monetary, bureaucratic, and logistical support to non-Western immigrants who might wish to return their countries of origin.
For some background on just how important this is, A 2021 study carried out by four researchers at the University of Amsterdam’s School of Economics found that while a labor migrant will contribute 125,000 Euros to the Dutch state (net) over their lifetime. The authors note that once family reunification is taken into account only Western labor migrants produce a positive net contribution to the Dutch state. Student migration will cost the Dutch taxpayer 75,000 Euros per person, a migrant who comes through family reunification will cost the Dutch taxpayer 275,000 Euros, and an asylum seeker will cost the Dutch taxpayer a staggering 475,000 Euros over their lifetime in the Netherlands.
The average Moroccan costs the Dutch taxpayer a staggering 550,000 Euros over the course of his/her lifetime while the average African will cost the Dutch people some 600,000 Euros during their life in the Netherlands. These estimates also apply to the second-generation children of immigrants.
The authors of this study eventually came to the conclusion that mass immigration into the Netherlands has become a sort of Ponzi scheme in which ever-more immigrants are needed to make up for the massive fiscal deficits for the migrants who came before them. This is no surprise considering that this same study predicts the Dutch taxpayers will pay another 600 billion Euros between 2020 and 2040 to support the recent immigrant and immigrant descended populations in their country. This amounts to roughly 30 billion years per annum.
The only way to break the immigration Ponzi scheme and resolve the mass migration issue in a democratic fashion is a policy of voluntary repatriation.
Instead of spending 600 billion Euros over 20 years the Dutch government should spend 180 billion Euros on a simple 12-year remigration plan:
Offer 75,000 Euro-per-person payments to as many as two million non-Western descended people (defined as self-identifying minority with at least one non-Western grandparent) to voluntary leave the Netherlands and renounce their citizenship/right to reside in the country. This would cost about 150 billion Euros, or about 12.5 billion Euros per year.
The remaining 30 billion Euros would be put to use establishing the remigration bureaucracy, paying for flights, and assisting any would-be repatriates with the paperwork and applications necessary to relocate to their homeland or non-Western country of their choosing (that is willing to take them).
How many will go in the end?
We can first start with those under the PVV proposal itself. At best the PVV might be able to deport 250,000 people with criminal backgrounds, refugee backgrounds, and by revoking public state benefits such as social housing. We based this on the same share of UK non-Westerners with a criminal background, or about 13.5% of the minority population as well as the deportation of roughly 100,000 asylum seekers who currently do not possess Dutch citizenship.
If we carry this estimate over to the population of non-Western citizens then another 375,000 Dutch citizens of migrant extraction likely have a criminal background—of a total of 2.75 million—and should be denaturalised and deported.
Second are the necessary visa cancellations and with 750,000 non-citizen foreigners from outside the West in the country there is ample opportunity. The Dutch government is already working to reduce the number of foreign students in the country (131,000 in 2023) and is issuing fewer work permits, but this is only a partial solution. Instead it is recommended that the Dutch state, which is already trying to reduce low wage migration, set an annual cap of new migrant workers from outside the West at 10,000 (half the 2024 figure) and force companies to pick only the most expert migrants from abroad for the most necessary work. Family reunification should also be capped at 20,000 for all non-citizens of the Netherlands. This policy should include a hard cap of foreign residents at 1.5% of the native Dutch population, or about 180,000 non-Western migrants on visas at any given moment.
By taking these measures the Dutch could reduce their non-citizen population by a further 320,000 people.
Second are the naturalised immigrants, of which there are roughly 1,250,000 with a non-Western background. Data from the United States has shown that minority individuals have a roughly 45% desire to relocate abroad should the opportunity arise, while in the United Kingdom that share is 66% among young adults (aged 16-34). Assuming that the numbers are roughly similar in the Netherlands then the Dutch government might expect 560,000 naturalised migrants to take the money and return to their homelands.
There are also second and third generation immigrants in the country, of which there are about 1.45 million. It is likely that the least integrated non-Dutch second and third generation migrants will be the most eager to leave. This figure accounts for roughly 50% of the migrant descended population. There is also the data from here in Britain showing that 66% of young adults with a migrant descended background are considering or actively working to move abroad. If a similar share of minority second and third generation immigrants in the Netherlands took the remigration payments then some 960,000 people could be expected to depart the country.
These policies would bring about a remarkable reverse in the Great Replacement in the Netherlands. Non-Western minorities would be just 6.5% of the population, a 12.5-point decrease from their current 19% share of the Dutch population. European migrants and their descendants would compose 17.1% of the population. The native Dutch (no migrant background) would comprise 76.4% of the population, a 12.4-point rise on their current 66% share. The overall Western/European share of the population of the Netherlands would be 93.5%.
If we were to include second-generation Western immigrants with one Dutch parent (500,000 individuals) then the Dutch share of the population rises to 79.6% of the demographic pie. If we include third-generation Western immigrants (740,000) as Dutch (as the Dutch government does) then the native Dutch would comprise 84.25% of the population of the Netherlands.
As broad a remigration policy as possible, while sticking to the Humane and the morally justifiable, is necessary to reverse decades of poor immigration policy in the West and the Netherlands in particular.