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

Yes.

But I fear the horse has bolted.

For a very long time, those who urged caution and predicted the problems down stream were ignored, ridiculed, insulted and labeled "far right" by (well intentioned) idiots.

The chickens are now, (just starting) to come home to roost.

Several EU countries including Germany and Italy have now decided they need to act alone in spite of Brussels on uncontrolled mass immigration.

Ireland needs to do the same imo. If others take action to secure their borders and we don't we just become an even bigger doormat.

Quite right.

A comprehensive review of Government expediture on NGOs is long overdue.

They have created a monster.

Never heard of anyone being arrested or anything like that. Sure some folks were hailing that person as a hero such was the way the people of East Wall were portrayed as racist scumbags by politicians and the media.

The part where Cahill talks about "homeless families being thrown out onto the streets of Cashel to accommodate refugees" is total BS. If you read this other article, there are no homeless families currently in that hostel and only four actual homeless people (and meanwhile, no decision has been made at all about future use of the hostel).

The NGOs are a branch of government cloaked as independent. Most of their funding comes from Govt with some private funding as cover. Bit like RTE. When u see a debate on RTE with a Govt Minister, a NGO talking head all moderated by a RTE journalist...they are all part of the same team.

Ah now, introducing facts into the discussion? How very "far right" of you? /s for those that can't see the sarcasm.

What you’re describing is a phenomenon that Dr Robert Putnam the US political scientist who wrote “Bowling Alone” after the Coumbine Massacre,noted in his study "E Pluribus Unum - Diversity and Community in the 21st Century."

In it he notes that:

“immigration and ethnic diversity tend to reduce social solidarity and social capital. New evidence from the US suggests that in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods residents of all races tend to ‘hunker down’. Trust (even of one's own race) is lower, altruism and community cooperation rarer, friends fewer.”

This is also referred to as “conflict theory” first formulated by Harvard social scientist Gordon Allport. Basically it holds that diversity sharpens “us-against-them” inter-ethnic/inter-racial interactions. Putnam's view opposes diversity-influenced public policies.” He was surprised by the results of his work and has jumped through many hoops to try and spin it to be more diversity positive, saying that in the long term everything is going to be just great. This Pollyanna type thinking may have made it easier to get more grants and funding, or maybe not. You can make your own mind up. But there is no evidence of the benefits of this in Europe.

Putnam first published this in the Journal of Scandinavian Political Studies in 2007. It seems that the Swedish government of the time or subsequent ones didn’t read or agree with it either. 

Similarly, the ones that are able to drive from Ukraine to Ireland. I would imagine that is quite expensive on petrol /diesel

arrive here and no questions asked , full speed ahead with all the benefits and handouts !

Leo has commented that people are movimg from safe EU countries to Ireland because kf the benefits here.

So there will be a change in the benefits I suspect.