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An undated image of a Red Cross worker talking to people at the Ter Apel registration center.
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Ter Apel asylum center area declared safety risk zone after recent stabbings, fights
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Sign at the entrance of the Ter Apel registration center.
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Video: Fights break out outside Ter Apel center on first night after aid groups pull out
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Red Cross shelters outside the Ter Apel asylum reception center. Undated.
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Aid groups halt services at asylum center after incidents linked to small group of men
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Red Cross volunteers speaking with people arriving at the asylum registration center in Ter Apel, May 2026
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New asylum system set to launch amid ongoing pressure at primary reception center
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A girl is crying, covering her eyes
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130,000 Ukrainians allowed to stay until 2027, Dutch aid groups warn of youth struggles
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Dieuwertje Blok on the Sinterklaasjournaal, 9 November 2020
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Sinterklaasjournaal presenter Dieuwertje Blok dies at 67 after bout with cancer
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Two women at an asylum reception center
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Overcrowding strains Schiphol Asylum facility amid migrant surge
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A small group of people gathered at the Ter Apel asylum seeker reception center in November 2014
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Refugee orgs., others invovled very critical of Dutch government's leaked asylum plans
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PVV MP Marjolein Faber during a debate on the Ministry of Justice and Security budget. 7 February 2024
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Dutch gov't to scrap part of asylum law to lower inflow; Irresponsible, Refugee org says
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Jaarbeurs Utrecht
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Utrecht tells Ukrainian refugees to find own shelter, possibly in another country
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Jaarbeurs Utrecht
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Concerns for Ukrainian refugees as main Utrecht facility closes; Human trafficking risk
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A small group of people gathered at the Ter Apel asylum seeker reception center in November 2014
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Pressure on asylum reception remains high in 2024, additional places needed
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Red Cross tents at the asylum registration center in Ter Apel, 16 June 2022
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Asylum costs still out of control in the Netherlands after 28 years of warnings
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IND counter in The Hague
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Backlog of undecided IND asylum applications climbs toward record high
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King Willem-Alexander meets with asylum seekers, workers, and volunteers in Ter Apel. 31 Aug. 2022
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Dutch king meets with asylum seekers at crowded Ter Apel center
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Asylum seekers sleep outside the asylum application center in Ter Apel, August 2022
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Around 300 asylum seekers spend the night outdoors once again at Ter Apel
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Albergen in the municipality Tubbergen
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State secretary Van der Burg to visit Tubbergen to discuss 'asylum hotel'
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A Dutch soldier speaking to a man in the Uruzgan province of Afghanistan with the help of an interpreter, June 2010
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The Netherlands took action too late in Afghanistan, relief organizations say
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Stock image of a person struggling in the water
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Asylum seekers’ high number of drownings raise alarm
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Asylum seekers on Lesbos
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Shelter refugees from overfull camps on cruise ships: Dutch MPs
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Bunk beds
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Justice Min. wants asylum seekers to pay for long stays in shelters: report
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Stock photo teen on stone wall
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Netherlands' first center for sexually exploited men opens in Eindhoven
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The Netherlands' Immigration and Naturalization Service
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Asylum seeker deported by NL unjustly given life in prison in Bahrain: Amnesty Int'l
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Police at the scene of a murder-suicide on Cremerstraat in Papendrecht, two adults and two children were killed, 22 Sept 2018
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Father suspected of killing Papendrecht family in murder-suicide