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

So 230,000 pps numbers issued to nonnationals in 2022 is not mass immigration and the housing problem is a myth.

Garda Immigration as of February are meeting certain aircraft arriving at the steps / airbridge to check for passports, because some of these individuals are hiding/destroying them on arriving in the terminals….before the passport checks inside….

theyve broken toilets trying to flush them, ffs….

Yeah but you must remember how **** Ireland was in the '80s. Houses were cheap because everyone was emigrating and mortgages were at 15% interest. Our hospitals were what you see in the third world now. Life expectancy is a lot better now. The housing list was definitely shorter but again due to less demand, people dying sooner or leaving the country.

You were in that golden age of the mid '90s to '00s where the hollowed out shell of the Irish economy had room to expand. People can't afford a house now because your generation decided Dublin's skyline had to match the Custom House but everyone needed to live in a 3 bed semi and drive a car.

How you can actually type out such a lie is beyond me.

Cop yourself on.

There’s a Ukraine girl living in Dublin with a host family who has a weekly column in the Indo. Today she writes about taking a trip to Warsaw to visit her family (why isn’t she there?), giving out about incompetent airline staff and a heavy backpack.

she goes on to say what makes her happiest in Ireland is the dogs she lives with “sorry to my human friends “

Absolutely not, I have nothing to do with any non governmental organisation or the state. But all I can see in this thread are far right talking points from social media being rehashed over and over again. A criminal or gang member from another country would hardly want to live for several years in Ireland in direct provision and on €38 a week. Also, a person with a serious criminal record or who is wanted by Interpol or Europol will not be granted asylum under any circumstances.

This constant talk about criminality and refugees is off the wall. We have serious problems in this country with alcoholism and drug addiction, violent crime, drunk and disorderly behaviour and so on and all people want to discuss in this thread is the supposed 'threat' to them posed by refugees. Look at all the violent attacks on Gardai in the last year or so....has a refugee or non national been involved in a single one of them?

But all of that comes back to the point that you cannot pick and choose which refugees come to your country or what demographic they are (i.e. race, gender, religion, skin colour, age or anything else). It's not about admitting preferable or desirable types of refugees. International refugee law states you must allow any person who seems to have a valid asylum claim the opportunity to claim asylum.

Yes, it would be fantastic if every person who arrived was fluent in English, had a third level degree, strong IT skills and so on but that is just not how the refugee system works. The Tory government and their Home Office are trying to go down this route of being extremely selective about the 'types' of refugees they admit and deporting all the others, but are being warned by multiple agencies that this would be in breach of every refugee law going.

Yeah. Apparently they are going to throw more money down the drain (5 million euros) on transporting pets from Ukraine. What a collosal waste of money this caper is.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/government-expects-spend-up-5-26924665?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

It's a national inferiority complex. A NEED to be liked, approved of, and validated by others - especially our perceived "betters".

From the whole "everyone loves the Irish", to the song and dance about how progressive we are with plastic bag taxes and openly gay leaders, to the complete bending of the knee to the EU during the financial crisis, and now this latest crusade at again, huge cost to this country and its citizens... And for what? Retirement plans for FG and FF? Attaboys from Von der Leyen? There certainly doesn't seem to be any benefit or even logic to adding massively to already overstretched essential services and infrastructure. You only have to listen to the news to realise that.

It's this lack of logic that's most concerning. The only conclusion can be that there's another unspoken goal or agenda at work here. Is it to increase the population of the country as per FG policy? Is it another unpublished "threat" from our EU "friends" as apparently happened during the lead up to the bailout? Is it something else?

These are real and serious questions but as yet we're still not getting answers.