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Legal Bid fails to stop Nigerian family's deportation

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    HollyB
    Registered Users Posts: 361 ✭✭HollyB


    clonycavanman wrote: »
    Exceptions for 'hard and difficult cases'.... are injust to the others.

    Exceptions for 'hard and difficult cases' set a precedent. There is no such thing as a once-off in situations like this. If an exception was made for Great Agbonlahor, then any asylum seeker with a child with special needs - or, one could even make the case, any asylum seeker with a child who came from a country where the educational facilities were not as good as those in Ireland - would be able to point to his case and argue that they too should be allowed to stay.

    It is naive to suggest that this would not happen.
    Jackie laughlin wrote: »
    The point I'm making is that these kids know no other home but Ireland and are as Irish as genetically Irish kids.

    Not legally. They were born in Italy, but under Italy's citizenship laws, that did not qualify them for Italian or EU citizenship. The only country where they can claim citizenship is Nigeria. Legally, they are Nigerian children. It is their legal status, together with the validity of their claim for asylum that the Minister must take into account when he makes his decisions.

    I don't know what his personal feelings about the case are, but he cannot allow them to affect his decision.


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