Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings and threadbans - updated 11/5/24*

The EU does need to revisit it's immigration policy. 100%. The sooner the better.

However no matter what policy they invent, there will be mass immigration to Europe for many many reasons. It's unstoppable. The real question is how you tighten the asylum process and if you try and integrate the "undocumented" or whether you allow them to ghetto up or whether you forcibly deport millions (to where) or whether you try and help the African countries to help reduce outward migration or loads and loads of other scenarios. It's very very complex. Extremely. Mass inward migration is inevitable though. It will get worse and worse.

There is absolutely no point in arguing the points using individual videos on tiktok or whatever ye use (Boards is my only social media). They are all micro events, you need to see the macro picture.

We have our fingers in the dyke now, it will break. Mature discussion required. Total societal breakdown is the risk here.

I laughed earlier when I read someone talking about a 'cracker' attack in Limerick and someone else replying male-female violence was whataboutery. In Ireland! If that's the level of debate...😂😂

100% it is. 100%.

Climate change alone will force it from northern and central Africa. Inevitable. They will have no choice. The rains have been failing for years and it will get much worse.

100%. And in a much much bigger scale. It will be an exodus. By 2050 some of the most populous African countries will be almost unlivable.

The borders of the EU will be a sieve. Perhaps you will see the EU break up and countries go it alone to throw up strong border controls but where there is a will, there is a way. And there will be plenty of will. We ain't seen nothing yet. Don't judge the future options by the relative trickle today.

And climate change is 100% inevitable too. No matter how we plan to tackle it, it will happen regardless.

Where did I pick up these lies exactly?

Look whatever, you keep your finger in the dyke and hope for the best. Politicians across the world need to plan for the worst.

Wicklow resident 😂😂

Politicians in certain countries need to end the artificial policy of mass immigration that they have implemented for economic reason.

Which they can at any time that the political will to do so arises.

Ah yes, the flip a switch plan. Good luck with that. As I said, very very very complex with mind boggling numbers.

The greatest thing we have to combat it is… we are an island nation…you can only arrive via aircraft or boat.

people arriving via aircraft or boat, who do not qualify send them back on the next outbound ones…

Who said it was a natural historic process? In the past, people tended to stay at home because they liked home. They only moved when forced. We know that better than most.

I am talking about the future. The world is changing. Travel has also become easier. Climate is changing.

I'd imagine if I denied you your dinner for 7 days in a row, you'd row over to Wales! 😂

hmmmm, so developing counties havent become heavily indebted to primarily western financial institutions, such as the world bank and the imf, and when failing to meet debt repayments to such institutions, policies such as liberalization of markets, privatization of state assets, and austerity, havent been forced upon them, by these institutions!

And if there is going to be huge immigration to these shores due to climate change, why are we facilitating mainly economic migrants (Ukrainians aside) posing as asylum seekers right now? Surely now would be the time to halt this type of immigration and prepare for the inevitable surge that’s coming down the line. If we continue to accept asylum seekers up until the point where we start getting climate change refugees (the economic migrants will keep coming as ever, btw), I really don’t know what state the country will be in by then.

Though if they genuinely are fleeing the effects of climate change, then living in a tented community somewhere in mild/grey Ireland may not seem so bad.