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One child, one file, one decision: Belgium’s top court limits how asylum support can be cut

One child, one file, one decision: Belgium’s top court limits how asylum support can be cut

BRUSSELS — Belgium’s Constitutional Court ruled last Thursday on the laws that anchor the federal government’s asylum crackdown, and its message fits in one sentence: the state can restrict an asylum seeker’s material support, but never automatically, and never by…