Young asylum seekers who are not granted refugee status should be sent back to their home country straight away, rather than being allowed to settle in the Netherlands until they are 18, VVD lawmakers say in Tuesday’s Telegraaf.

At the moment, youngsters who arrive in the Netherlands without an adult can remain until they are 18.
The VVD hopes the change would end cases like that of the Angolan youth Mauro Manuel, who faces deportation now he is 18, even though he has lived in the Netherlands since he was nine.
Treaties
And to make sure the Netherlands does not break international treaties, it should establish orphanages in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia so refugee children would have somewhere to go when sent back, the VVD says.
Parliament will debate amendments to immigration and asylum policy later on Tuesday.
At the same time, opposition party GroenLinks wants the government to agree to an amnesty for an estimated 1,000 children who will be faced with deportation at some point.

Language

‘These children have ties to the Netherlands not their home country, where they no longer speak the language,’ MP Tofik Dibi is quoted as saying by news agency ANP.
Dibi called on Christian Democrat MPs to support the amnesty. The CDA was at first divided over the Mauro case but later toed the government line and refused to support giving the youth a residency permit.
However, the CDA did vote in favour of a motion calling for a more humane approach to young asylum seekers at the annual party conference last month.