CDA plan to tackle immigrant youth crime

The Christian Democratic party would like to introduce a sort of special community service for ethnic minority youths who commit crimes, news agency ANP reports.


For example, hassling women and calling them prostitutes could be punished under the new regime, CDA MP Sybrand van Haersma Buma is reported as saying. The measure is included in a CDA policy document on immigration and integration published on Monday.
The new punishment would consist of rigid after-school programmes in a special institute which would teach the youths how to behave, ANP said.
In addition, youths who were picked up after an offence should spend a couple of days in the cells, rather than be released straight away, ANP quoted the CDA as saying.
The ANP report did not say if native Dutch teenagers would also fall under the new regime.

Immigration

The party also wants more restrictions on marriage-based immigration but says the IT specialist would still be welcome, ANP reports. And there should be more emphasis on learning Dutch and less focus on immigrants’ country of origin.
‘You can see that with all the tv satellite dishes,’ Van Haersma Buma is was quoted as saying. ‘That is not a way to build a society.’
The MP denied that the growing popularity of anti-immigration MP Geert Wilders had influenced the CDA position.

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