The president of the Belgian League of Human Rights decided to reread the 1996 program of the Vlaams Blok, a far-right party convicted of racism. He compared this document with the policies on immigration by all democratic coalition governments in the last 20 years and came to the chilling conclusion that much of the program, including the creation of a State Secretary for Asylum and Migration, social housing priority for the indigenous population, expulsion for a criminal conviction and financial subsidies for return to country of origin, has, over time, been implemented in Belgium.