>The condition in which many asylum seekers find themselves in Brussels would raise eyebrows in most European countries, but in Belgium, it has been normalised, civil society organisations lament.
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>**Since October 2021, Belgium has been failing to provide asylum seekers with the shelter they are legally entitled to, leaving many without shelter and sleeping rough.**
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>Without a change to Belgium’s current policy, some applicants may even be without housing until 2024, various civil society organisations report.
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>”Currently, the number of people on the waiting list for reception hovers around 3,000, which is still far too high,” policy advisor at Refugee Work Flanders, Thomas Willekens, told The Brussels Times.
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>**Belgium’s agency for asylum reception, Fedasil, has been condemned more than 6,761 times for its failure to provide shelter; the European Court of Human Rights has issued more than 1,656 interim measures to ensure that immediate action is taken.**
This problem solves itself when people that were denied asylum would leave so their space can be given to new asylum requesters, something that actively gets blocked and fought against by those same humanitarian groups that now complain that the capacity is too low.
These groups aren’t humanitarian, they just want open borders and are politically driven. If they want that, they should try to get elected with that as their main point and see how much of the populace agrees with them. Hint, it’s not many.
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>The condition in which many asylum seekers find themselves in Brussels would raise eyebrows in most European countries, but in Belgium, it has been normalised, civil society organisations lament.
>
>**Since October 2021, Belgium has been failing to provide asylum seekers with the shelter they are legally entitled to, leaving many without shelter and sleeping rough.**
>
>Without a change to Belgium’s current policy, some applicants may even be without housing until 2024, various civil society organisations report.
>
>”Currently, the number of people on the waiting list for reception hovers around 3,000, which is still far too high,” policy advisor at Refugee Work Flanders, Thomas Willekens, told The Brussels Times.
>
>**Belgium’s agency for asylum reception, Fedasil, has been condemned more than 6,761 times for its failure to provide shelter; the European Court of Human Rights has issued more than 1,656 interim measures to ensure that immediate action is taken.**
This problem solves itself when people that were denied asylum would leave so their space can be given to new asylum requesters, something that actively gets blocked and fought against by those same humanitarian groups that now complain that the capacity is too low.
These groups aren’t humanitarian, they just want open borders and are politically driven. If they want that, they should try to get elected with that as their main point and see how much of the populace agrees with them. Hint, it’s not many.