Immigration to Ireland - policies, challenges, and solutions *Read OP before posting*

You included legal for migrants, but apparently forgot legal for asylum seekers. Even Vradakar a few years ago namechecked places like Georgia as origins of chancers claiming "asylum"(though he kept to those from paler nations, don't want to upset the pearlclutchers there). Those 'losing' their documents on flights here from safe countries are chancers and should be thrown out at the earliest opportunity. But of course they won't be. Just add them to the pile being shipped in and whinge it's all the fault of the boogyman far right. As per usual. Hell, even if they do get official deportation orders it's up to them to deport themselves in the majority of cases. It's beyond bloody ridiculous.

Maybe you could try reading a history book. Even recent history will do. What you will find is the pattern is far more that different peoples don't integrate particularly well and the more unlike the local population they are the less likely they will integrate, or indeed be let integrate.

Damned near every single conflict in history has sprung from a Them Vs Us narrative and both tend to be pretty rigidly defined. Can you tell an Irish Protestant from an Irish Catholic? No, but a couple of centuries of distrust down to murderous mayhem shows too many can. Can you tell the difference between a Serb and Croat, a Russian or Ukrainian, a Tutsi or a Hutu, a Jew or a Gentile? When it comes to history and hard realities your naivete is telling.

I think you'll find those folks working in the HSE are highly trained legal immigrants who applied to come here legally. Spot the word legally. Only the differently mental are against legal immigration.

Again and this may come as a shock; This. is. Not. America. And we hardly need to import their crazy many decades long issues around the exploitation of cheap labour immigration and race relations, or lack thereof.

And it's funny how 30 years ago when the extra EU migrant population was significantly smaller than today we were able to put fish and veg on our plates and all the other things too. How did we manage then?

An interesting angle to this debate, how it's framed and where the focus lies is that the majority of our inward migration have been and are pale of skin. Polish folks alone dwarf the number of African folks, as do the Ukrainians after little more than a single year.

It's also informative as far as how actual 'multiculturalism' actually works. Beyond the early days of "they're eating our swans" nonsense they're essentially invisible. Ditto for the thousands of pale faced Germans, Spaniards, British etc and Ukrainians that stay will go the same way.

We have an Irish Black History Month, but the Poles don't warrant a damp Tuesday in November. Why? The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Or the problem gets the Right On sop for the feel good optics, because god forbid we'd have to actually look at the wider picture. I'd be willing to bet that few Black people in Ireland were asked, nor wanted a month to mark them out.