Immigration minister Gerd Leers has caused outrage in 19 city councils because he has cancelled a special programme for supervising young asylum seekers who are due for deportation, reports Trouw.

Support for unaccompanied child asylum seekers stops when they reach 18 and the programme run by Perspectief provided them with help and housing until they were deported.
Now the subsidy for Perspectief has been withdrawn, the councils are concerned that these young people will be forced into criminality and prostitution, says Trouw.
The Hague councillor Marnix Norder has asked the minister to reverse his decision until parliament has a chance to debate the matter.