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

I agree that the threshold for protection has to be increased considerably, particularly in as far as it relates to lesser forms of protection such as Humanitarian Leave to Remain. In 2015 the McMahon report recommended extending Leave to Remain to asylum seekers with a deportation order, provided they were in Direct Provision for a period in excess of five years. In 2020 the Day Report recommended reducing that time period and extending Leave to Remain to asylum seekers with a deportation order, provided they were in Direct Provision for a period in excess of two years. In 2021, a year after the Day Report, a general amnesty was announced in the form of the Regularisation of Long-Term Undocumented Migrants Scheme. In effect, an asylum seeker with a spurious asylum claim is afforded the opportunity to manipulate the asylum system through a serious of vexatious appeals and is rewarded for this with the right to remain in the State. Denmark has limited secondary and tertiary protection considerably, as has Sweden, which extends tertiary protection to children or families with children only. Leave to Remain is granted at the discretion of the Minister for Justice, in that respect it is a form of protection entirely within the State’s control - from this point on it has to be a case of Refugee Status or a deportation order that is effected in a thorough and timely manner.

There should be no money handed to IPA applicants,they should be fed .Sheltered and access to medical care until a decision is made on their status

Interesting video in regards to the for & against the immigration pact that has just passed by the dail. Surprised by some of the names that were not in favour of passing.

Admit hand on heart that I switched off at the protest bit. Will listen back to the rest later. Good to hear the discussion moved on to the issue du jour.

If you look at the few years that the migration pact was getting negotiated it showed the growing difference as the countries shifted their own views election by election through the council but the parliament remained more unchanged bar a slight shift as the mood shifted at home.

When it passed in the end there was only a few countries Ireland of course included that objected to the more stringent parts of it. Some in the EU parliament probably hoped that passing and not fighting the council on it now would be better than allowing it to be passed in a very different form under a very different parliament after the election.

With Hungary taking the council presidency, and a new parliament.

I wouldn't be surprised with the amount of continued objection even now in the council that it doesn't go far enough that after the parliamentary elections the separate parts of the pact will become more strict on immigration.

My main concern isn't on the effectiveness of the pact ( I don't think it goes far enough) or the opt out payment on housing them, it's that Ireland will be paying all this money and still getting everyone who'd have shown up anyway but not using any of the tool the pact provides.

Like buying and paying for a monitored alarm, and then not turning it on and leaving the door unlocked.

No shanty towns/tent cities wanted on the southside of the city centre because "wraparound services and support can't be provided in locations like this".

Are these wraparound services and supports available in the many small towns hosting IPAs around Ireland?

You're aware that quite a few TDs are opposed to the EU Migration Pact because they consider it way too harsh on migrants? There are TDs on the No list from the likes of Labour, the Soc Dems and SF.

"The government have made it very clear that they care about the housing situation for migrants as if their lives depend on it, while irish people are barely an afterthought."

This is exactly it. It's jaw dropping really. They even by-passed the planning system for asylum seeker accommodation. Now they're going to scour the country and buy up homes off the open market for these fake refugees - directly hurting Irish people renting and buying. I just CANNOT believe what i am witnessing right now from this government and civil service. And SF when they get in, the outcome will be exactly the same as the NGO's and civil service will still be in place doing what they're doing and with SF on the left on social issues it may actually get even worse.

march in Dublin against government policy.

All coumminity's of Ireland are gathering for a peaceful protest on May 6th at 2:30pm at the Garden of Remembrance to oppose unfair immigration policies in Ireland.... There will also be a a counter protest on the same day, organized by Boyd Barrett.

Mr. Google found this for me, amazed the tweet hasn't been buried.

Obviously the one they were talking about on callan's kicks yesterday.