Dutch PM is ashamed that migrants are left sleeping outside

By MIKE CORDER
Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he is ashamed that hundreds of asylum-seekers have been forced to sleep outside an overcrowded migrant reception center. He made the admission as his government announced a package of measures Friday to ease the situation by providing more accommodations and temporarily restricting migration. Rutte says it’s “terrible what is happening” outside the center in the remote northeastern village of Ter Apel.  Rutte’s four-party ruling coalition announced measures to temporarily rein in family reunions of migrants who have been granted refugee status, provide more housing for people whose asylum requests were approved and process and repatriate people quicker who come from countries considered safe.