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

Mostly new arrivals I believe, some interviewed said only arrived in last day or so. Chap called Brian from South Africa interviewed earlier and seems to be here longer. Q: is SA a country at war these days??

More like frostbite. The longer if goes on the worse it gets.

They can be embeded here, its nice to share them so we can all see without having to navigate phone browsers.

It also serves as balance to the stuff the media will happily put out eg below(20mnins ago).

Australia also has outward migration too. I guess if Irish or any other nationalities are contributing towards the housing crisis the Australian government are free to put more controls on inward migration until it has been regulated

The sad thing is that, if countries actually engage in good spirit, the EU Migration Pact presents probably one of the best chances we will have to actually tackle the number of asylum seekers. The alternative vision of saying f**k you to EU-wide migration policies and pulling up the drawbridge to magically only allow perfectly industrious migrants and totally honest refugees sounds tempting. I can see why people get drawn into it as the solution.

But we are already seeing the effects of what happens when the countries of Europe act solely in their own interest without any co-operation or burden-sharing. Italy is left without incentive to prevent migrants making their way to the French border, France whistles while looking the other way as boats set off to the UK and migrants gather at Calais, and the UK decides that Ireland is the perfect defenseless sucker to ship migrants off to. Then what do we do?

The idea of totally self-serving migration policy is great, until we realise that it also means our European neighbours working against us and each other.

And there have been plenty of Irish 'illegal' immigrants too, particularly to the US.

It seems one of those same fellas is running in the upcoming elections on an 'anti-immigration' platform and people (some here anyway) are taking him seriously.

In September 2023, Casey wrote on X: “I was illegal in the USA before I got my L1. Enter a counter [sic.] illegally and you know the risk of getting caught and bounced out.”

https://www.thejournal.ie/key-moments-as-migration-dominates-european-elections-tv-debate-6385001-May2024/

Orban, Le Pen, Wilder, Trump, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, McNamara, Casey… There seems to be a very strong correlation between running on an anti-immigration platform and looking quite like a spoofer (to put it very mildly).

And they should have been deported also… I'm pretty sure anyone here who's stance is tighter illegal immigration controls would have no problem with that, and I am almost certain our government would be taking back anyone deported.

It really irritates me no end that there was no political will to provide modular homes for our own homeless people of which there are many stuck at home with mammy and daddy. It wasn't even proposed as a solution.

Yet the same people's taxes are being used to do the same for people who have arrived from outside the state.

There are many people that wouldn't turn their nose up at one as it would give them independence. It's absolutely shameful carry on.

It's already been explained several times why a tweet from an Irish government official might have had a lot of reach. I don't think anyone said 'singlehandedly'

Honestly, it's not surprising. There is quite a large % of lefties and woke far left that seems to have a real disdain for anything native Irish or native Irish people. They love to throw around derogatory statements about young Irish people, how most are "scrotes" and are the fault of everything, but the "foregnners" can do no wrong and are never at fault for anything. They chomp at the bit to promote news where native Irish are shown in a bad light.

There were literally people stating it was the fault of the state for not giving mental health services to the guy that stabbed that child and to leave him be the "poor man".

It's not exclusive to Ireland, this strange phenomenon is happening in most Western countries with those woke lefties.

Thats irrelevant to the argument about his tweets in multiple languages. As I said it has been explained several times about algorithms and how Twitter works. I'm sure you've also heard how the internet never forgets

You can't compare 'plenty of illegal Irish in the US as well' to the situation we have here. I knew plenty who stayed in the US illegally in the 80's and 90's. Yes, they were breaking the law, I dont deny that. But they stayed with aunty Mary or cousin Tom until they got set up, worked hard to pay their way, paid for their own housing, food, etc. Most I know eventually returned or gained legal status. Hardly anyone migrates illegally to the US anymore. Work in Ireland in a big factor, but its much harder now to life a comfortable life in the US as an illegal. After 9/11, rules around social security numbers, banking, driving licsence, work contracts, housing leases, healthcare, etc tightened up to make it very difficult to obtain the above with a greencard. Plus ICE deporations became the norm if you were stopped say for a minor traffic violation or a fight in a bar. Before then, cops tended to turn blind eye to illegal Irish.

Apparently each modular home costs 400k, that will be some bill in Clonmel

You've just accepted that there will never be political will to help Irish people and I think that's the point. Why is there zero political to help Irish people but billions to spend on refugees? Can you not see how thats incredibly frustrating

We are told our nurses and gards can’t afford rent in Dublin, with some emigrating cause of the cost.

Why wasn’t modular homes offered as a solution for these people?

What a kick in the teeth to the Irish working people.