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

One man. Wow.

What about the rest?

How many are reliant on state support to live here?

And yet thousands of them are jumping ship to Belfast and heading down to Dublin. Zero cost to the British exchequer and thousands of em gone. Paddy can rent out as many D hotels as he can get his hands on for em!

Exactly. The people that throw around terms like 'far right scum' are running out of arguments and they know it

I've been thinking about this stuff recently and I would likely be concerned if 100 tents of asylum seekers were placed next to us for an indefinite period. I would be concerned if it was 100 unemployed or employed Irishmen too.

Maybe that's just because we have kids but that's how I currently feel. I probably wouldn't mind as much if it was just myself.

If the government were to follow processes and get planning involved and build trust then asylum accommodation might not be such an issue. For example, if I knew the 100 tents beside me would only be there for a year, then I'd be a lot less concerned.

The idea of calling scared people scumbags and far right in order to dismiss all concerns is just crazy to me. The government neeeds to engage with people in the locality, communicate effectively and keep promises and then all this might be much less of an issue. That's just my current take, I could be off.

Anyone who thinks this is a normal situation needs to walk past mount street. It needs to be seen to be believed. The tents lining the streets are spilling into nearby streets like chatten street. It's not normal to have so many tents in the street.

Men who are packed like sardines into DP centres or sleeping rough in the streets all the while being told by NGOs how disgustingly racist Irish people are. The government have created an extremely dangerous and divisive environment. For everyone concerned

The UK and their lackeys always treated us like Rwanda. 🤣

Some might try to gaslight you into thinking that this is a bigoted far right take but there are loads who feel the same. Your take is moderate and reasonable

It's crazy to think that much of this could have been prevented with actual consultation and discussion. The current government are just too arrogant and think they are answerable to no one. They have hugely impacted tourism in certain towns, recklessly spent billions of taxpayers money and created a divisive environment. All because they see themselves as above the little people. They only have themselves to blame for the current mess

I agree. People bullied into silence by being called far right. Now the term is meaningless

But the Irish far right are very real - these fellas called 'IrishPatriot24' or 'IrishLion07' or whatever on social media. I don't know about people protesting outside buildings, but the ones that are flooding every single post from RTE, the Irish Times, Irish Independent etc on Irish Twitter about immigration, refugees, asylum seekers, Ukrainians, McEntee, O'Gorman and so on are all out and out racists and bigots.

just in..

Controversial deportation regulation: Sunak's Rwanda policy apparently drives migrants to Ireland spiegel.de/ausland/grossbritannien-rishi-sunaks-umstrittene-abschiebepolitik-treibt-migranten-vermehrt-nach-irland-a-41f01230-700f-4be7-9cc0-7a903e03b67e

I think there's a good person inside everyone but then life isn't easy and people sometimes make bad choices that can compound over time etc. I hate the term scumbag.

You seem to be on the politically acceptable extreme and seem similar in your rage to those who attack people based on skin colour/ language etc. Your position seems like the priests of old dictating to everyone how they should live their lives and excoriating those who transgress.

The person who attacked and murdered that person has committed a very serious crime and the Garda and courts are there to enforce justice in such crimes.

I don't equate murder to a mother being concerned about government unilaterally circumventing planning laws to place people in tents beside them. I'm trying to understand how people could get so worked up and have to put it down to a government that refuses to listen and tries to surreptitiously achieve its aims instead of being transparent and honest and directly addressing concerns.

Instead the government make decisions that impact others but not them personally and if people voice concerns they are scumbags, far right or racist according to you.

Seems mad. By all means filter me, it'll save me having to reply.