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

I'm pretty sure the 'Ireland is full' believers have legal immigrants in their sights as well as asylum seekers. If you look at Brexit, the immigration aspect that fuelled the Leave vote was all about EU migrant workers, not refugees or asylum seekers - they were the ones portrayed as putting pressure on housing, hospitals and schools, depressing wages, stopping British people from getting jobs etc.

I don’t think anyone is asking for anything like they? where are you getting this narrative from? People are asking for stricter border control and ramped up faster processing with actual deportations rather than the odd one here and there .

When Straz starts a post with "I'm pretty sure..." it's probably time to move on and read the next post - I've lost count of the amount of times I've had to correct their musings with actual facts

Speaking of facts - just what the hell is going on here?

It's from gov.ie and I think it's from the start of this year (not sure) The rate of Nigerians arriving between the 18th Feb and the 25th Feb seems to be 1074 - It's a safe country according to O'Gorman but McEntee didn't want it classed as such, cos it was too much trouble for her Dept - This is the sort of s**t we're dealing with here - personal egos and attempted self preservation

This is the piss take to beat all piss takes - Bolivia eh? The word is well and truly out - Ireland is fully open

I do not suggest we remove migrant workers.

I suggest that we remove migrant non-workers.

To start with, any EU citizen who can't take care of them self.

EU laws do not oblige us to accept these people.

Let us actually implement EU law, and remove these non-working EU migrants.

(this would include the Puskas family)

For example, the individuals begging every day in Galway city, part of organised begging gangs, need to be booted out of the country.

A worker on below average wages of 42k, should not face a 48.5% marginal income tax rate to pay for non-working EU migrants, who choose to arrive here, and beg.

Who said it is as cut and dried as this?

Do Singapore/ Denmark etc allow a free for all in terms of immigration as some kind of penance for being successful?

Do they heck!

I don't buy it. We all know that all this anti migrant sentiment won't stop in relation to "illegal" migration at all. Very good point above by Strazdas - in the UK they all blamed EU migrants for everything.

Post Brexit immigration has gone up. 🙃

I Followed the Brexit campaign quite closely - I’d disagree with what you have said here about blaming migrants from the EU, maybe some did ”they all” absolutely did not. I feel it was more about the finances of the EU and how it was costing the UK.

You may be getting confused with some of the advocates for Brexit wanting control of their borders back - this was due to illegal/irregular migrant channel crossings - similar to what we are experiencing now.

nigeria has to be added to the safe country list at this stage it’s a piss take.

The top 3 are hilarious, totally 100% legit refugees/asylum seekers

I would say Roderic judges himself by his intentions rather than results. As such he will feel that current policies are very successful because they are based on generosity etc. The fact they have failed in practical terms won't bother him as much as it might bother someone else.

Thank you.

This is interesting.

It seems that we could reduce the volume of AS making bogus claims by requiring visas for travel.

Why do we have different travel visa policies to Schengen countries?

I would say as mad as people wanting to have open borders and letting anyone and everyone in!

Better to just let literally everybody in and create some mega shanty towns and watch every service go even further down the toilet.

Or build houses and improve services...

You know the stuff we should have been doing for the last decade but didn't.

Such a simplistic view - must be amazing. Just build them with the lack of labour, get some in to fill the jobs, oh look they've nowhere to stay. Lob up a metro there in a few weeks. Magic up a solution to the healthcare mess, lack of GP's etc.

All paid for with our limitless magic money tree. We are so rich after all! And all this will happen while thousands more arrive every month as we have to take everybody in. Even if it means we have to pay for them for life too. Magic money island.

The result - open borders liberal paradise!