Ireland running out of accommodation for Ukrainian refugees due to surge in non-Ukrainian refugees?

Around 6000 people were refused entry to the country in 2022 and promptly deported by the BMU or GNIB - I've no idea how the idea has taken hold among the anti-immigration crowd that this is not happening.

Doesn't it suggest that the immigration system is working well in fact? Letting some people through (people who they believe 'are' genuine asylum seekers) so that their claim can be assessed and immediately deporting the ones who they believe to be bogus.

Not 20k btw, I believe the figure for 2022 was 13k (very high by our standards admittedly, but not necessarily out of the ordinary by European norms).

See again you seem to be assuming that TV polls, protests etc. will inevitably convert into votes in a general election. Going on much headway the Right has made to date on that front, I'll be believing that when I see it...

Every time I mention I'm an Immigrant they shout pulling up the ladder. Ask Any immigrant in any country if they want more they will say no as it's competition.

An immigrant in any country saying they don’t want any more immigrants IS pulling up the ladder after themselves though 😂

Aside from that, it’s definitely not true to claim that any immigrant in any country shares your views, particularly when in Ireland alone there are plenty of immigrants who argue in favour of encouraging immigrants to come to come to Ireland where there are opportunities to make a better life for themselves and their families which don’t exist in the countries they come from.

You say that people with children will vote for any party that addresses immigration the way you want them to, because you see it as an issue. Other people don’t see immigration as an issue or an obstacle to to the opportunities their children have, and they don’t see immigrants as competition for those same opportunities, let alone attempting to portray non-European immigrants as being the type of immigrant nobody wants. That’s just coded language some people use to hide their racist nonsense that’s as plain as day.

Ireland isn’t going to vote for a party solely on the basis of their immigration policies, because we don’t have the same history of being openly racist in this country that exists in other countries which have a long history of mass immigration. Also unlike other European countries, we never attempted to colonise other countries either and then complained when colonists came to settle in the countries of their colonisers.

When there will be leaders who can string a coherent sentence together and get it going, be very afraid. They will fill that vacuum, don't you worry, and it will be a consequence of the current shower pussy footing around issues, making decisions to please the "right on" sector to the detriment of the country as a whole.

There weren't any extreme right wing parties with popular following until there was. Remember the nazis were laughed at in the beginning.

How is that ME sticking my head in the sand? I believe you when you say that outside of NGO workers you have never spoken to a fellow immigrant who would agree with that statement. It’s also why you’re so attuned to the results of a VM Tonight Show poll reporting on immigration or refugees or whatever it was. You’re undoubtedly familiar with the term ‘selection bias’.

That you came to Ireland legally and whatever else isn’t the point. The point is that you’re an immigrant who doesn’t want other immigrants to come to Ireland because you think they’re competition. They’re not, and you’re not any competition for Irish people either. There is no entitlement to anything in this country like a being able to attend college, buy a house, a career, etc. That’s ‘American Dream’ type nonsense.

Few people in this country are convinced their citizenship entitles them to certain rights in this country which it most certainly does not. Immigrants have exactly the same rights to the same opportunities. It doesn’t mean they are depriving Irish people of anything, nor are Government depriving Irish people of anything by providing for refugees.

Seems that government idea of sorting out immigration problem since hotels are pulling out of scheme is to build more state owned Direct provision centers because building houses for that amount of newcomers is simply not possible.

Up to 20% of current non ukraine DP residents already have favorable decision and can move out to live and work yet they are staying put since there is nowhere for them to go.

TV Poll. LOL. 😂

"There’s no wide open door policy, and providing for refugees is already budgeted for, so it’s not as though the funding is being taken from other services, it was never spent on those services in the first place."

This is nonsense for example if 3 billion of taxpayers money is earmarked just to provide for Ukranians then thats 3 billion that could gone towards housing, education,health etc.

Its the same argument that O Gorman makes when he says that housing being built for DP is from a separate budget than that for building social housing. Its all the countries money ffs. It would be like a man explaining to his wife that the money he spends in the pub 7 nights a week has no effect on the household budget.