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

Bonkers stuff from govt. Why can't they do that when it's needed by an Irish family

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/fresh-drive-to-buy-up-properties-for-asylum-seekers-as-up-to-100-migrants-on-mount-st-told-no-beds-available/a2073617781.html

Reports on plans

Versus

Reality

Schools in Dublin struggle because people cannot find somewhere to live. What is the single biggest driver of this? Lack of supply.

Billions is being wasted on asylum seekers and Irish people are being left behind.

When the government actively sees to buy properties for asylum seekers instead of making it viable for Irish people to live we get a shitshow.

The Irish refugees council, funded by the state, is housing asylum seekers in houses.

i actually was going to tag you about this, had heard it online, but was wondering was there any substance to it. So in their haste to show that it wasnt single males, which it will eventually be, they uprooted somewhat settled families and moved them to the countryside, 250km away.

Grand hotel in Wicklow was the same too, adults and children settling in the community only to be uprooted to co.Clare I believe. Although I believe it reverted to mixed again, with women and children in a seperate part of the building.

Workers on below average wages face a 48.5% marginal tax rate to pay for very expensive social housing in south Dublin for Moldovans.

What has happened to this country?

It's a wonder there isn't a revolution.

It's no wonder people's views are hardening.

A Moldovan can stroll into the country, with no travel documents, claim asylum, and even if the claim fails, they will, eventually, be provided housing at a very low rent, in one of the most expensive parts of Dublin.

Is any other country mad enough to do this?

And we’re told that asylum seekers have no affect on the housing market?

The Marxist ideology that has gripped the political class is responsible.

The natural thing for the country to do would be to apply a selective criteria for allowing people to come. They should have the skills that we need and the ability to support themselves. We're clearly not doing that and it's by design.

The people in charge deliberately conflate the useful immigration that we need with other immigration that is a drain on the country. This is because they think that the American who's a senior manager at a big tech company who's on €250k a year is no more important than the Moldovan with no English and limited skills/education.

The thing is, we can have it both ways. We are a free country, we can demand the immigration system that benefits us all. We can have our Filipino nurses and deport others who aren't paying their own way.

Do you have a reliable source for those figures?

I gave a quick look on line and they seem to be from a now defunct college newspaper.

If the figures are genuine, why would you assume those non born in Ireland are people who came to seek asylum?

But those who don't pay their own way are still a way of hitting targets for project 2040 and lining the pockets of those in the inner circle and keeping rents at ridiculous levels

There's still some good journalist out there such as Ian O'Doherty.