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

Even if the Muppet succeeds in getting that 500 off the street then there would be another 500 arriving to take their place in a week or two.

There simply has to be a stop to this free for all open borders insanity or a way to stem the flow.

I must say I’m gobsmacked. I’d been led to believe all the new entrants would be a boon to our economy?

Feck all these people that will lose their livelihoods anyway - the new arrivals deserve more

Logical stuff, not!

Even if a school had 4 pupils in each class, the school would remain open.

Sure let's pack them in like sardines instead.

We'll also continue with chronic over crowding in schools and a chronic shortage of teachers because they cannot now afford to work and live in towns and cities in this country because you guessed it, OVERPOPULATION!

No thats not logical. A school with 4 pupils in each class wouldnt stay open.

How do you know that to be a fact.

Have you links to similar situations where schools have closed?

Or maybe you have other reasons for your statement of fact?

Yeah but you also seem to be missing the point that those were literally Victorian times. I'm taking it as a safe assumption that you don't think refugees should be treated to squalor and mistreatment.

The Irish didn't necessarily assimilate straight away either, and their arrival didn't exactly go down peaceably. First of all, they were Catholics and seen as religiously and culturally distinct from Protestants (not to mention potentially seditious due to their perceived allegiance to Rome). The Irish Catholic immigrants were certainly not seen with the same admiration as the Protestant Scotch-Irish who were viewed as industrious, high quality people who had helped to expand the Frontier (not to mention that culturally the nativists saw America as being the refuge of puritanical Christianity from decadent Catholicism). There were huge tensions between Irish Catholic migrants and the so-called 'native' population, which frequently flared into brutal violence (like the Philadelphia Bible Riots of 1844). Some Irish soldiers even deserted the US army and fought alongside the Mexican Army in the Mexican-American War (the 'San Patricios' as they were known). Even in Boston, the city most synonymous with the eventual rise of the Irish diaspora to prominence, historians describe the Irish population as for a long time "a massive lump in the community, undigested, indigestible".

The Irish Catholics did not, in some great sweeping move, collectively set aside their religious beliefs or culture even though it was seen as totally incompatible to what Nativist Americans saw as being everything that America stood for. So I'd put it to you again that you have a rose tinted view of the "assimilation" of the Irish in America.

Now that's an interesting way to look at it alright! You make it sound like a lucky benefit and job creation scheme!

Also, what supports are there/needed for this class? Basic English tuition? SNAs for kids finding the adjustment harder than others?

Have these been resourced? Who loses out by reallocating the resources? (because we know there's not enough SNAs as it is in most schools). What effect on the 4 kids if the entire class has to slow to cover the basics such as language skills?

These are all fair questions that I'm sure the parents of the 4 are wondering about.

What sticks in my my mind is a TD who said Irish people should have sorted out their housing . The ethos housing is based on need and not citizenship .

Your niece is going to the school that your wife is on the board of management of.

And a teacher from that school that discussed information about nationality of students with a civilian member of the board of management?

And you led this story on boards by saying your nieces class.

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I don't believe this story.

Denmarks loss could be Ireland's gain, well Ireland's refugee industry gain!

Job losses in tourism sector up to ten thousand now with all the capacity that’s been given over to refugees.

Wonder what will be the knock on effect for those towns and communities that rely on tourism

That's not even close.

There is a poster or posters who have been led to believe that refugees will all be doctors, engineers etc.

I am wondering by who or how they have been led to believe this. And if possible to cite a source for this claim.

You have provided another post by a boards poster which while being vaguely on your same subject area has nothing to do with what I am posting about.

I doubt very much that anyone believed anything they didn't already before reading that post.

So this common racist trope of people being led to believe refugees would all be <insert preferred profession>,who led you to believe this if that is what you believe?

Sod these towns and their locals. If they are really lucky some so called journalist from the Indo or the Irish times will get travel allowance to call to the likes of clones, lisdoonvarna, portmagee etc.

There'll they'll interview the new diversity officer who'll tell us how wonderful it all is n that more funding is required.

Said journalist will hotfoot it back to their leafy suburbs in south Dublin grateful that high property prices will keep their area from turning out the same.

Has Pat Kenny been living under a rock for the past x no. of years, or was he just being sarcastic ? Why, he asks, are they coming to Ireland ? 99.99% of these migrants are not refugees (that's a badge of convenience) they are economic migrants. The word is out for a long time now that Ireland is a soft touch. The Nigerians call Ireland 'treasure Ireland for a reason !) Illegal migrants are coming here for our over generous welfare system, free housing, free education, free medical etc. etc. being aided and abetted by civil & public servants and other NGO all financed by our taxes.

Also the fact that's it's almost impossible to be deported and if, in the unlikely event that deportation is attempted, free legal aid is available with access to the best barristers, solicitors etc. up to the highest court in the land with options to go to the ECJ. All this of course takes years and years and millions of Euro.

England is gradually closing the door on illegal migrants so more and more are heading our way, many can speak some english so we're the next port of call. Hundreds of illegal migrants are turning up at Dublin airport's immigration office without any form of ID having deliberately destroyed their passports and all other forms of ID Why ? what serious crimes have they committed elsewhere, will they re offend ?? - yet they are allowed to roam the streets as if they were citizens. This would not be tolerated in any other civilized country, yet some are being discreetly encouraged to pitch their tents outside the international protection offices by civil servants to put pressure on other government departments.