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

If the alternative is pushing people towards living undocumented or in greater poverty, where they might commit more serious crimes, I think it's the best option.

I think this kind of verbal harassment, which I don't think we should tolerate at all, is necessarily even a criminal offence in Ireland.

As many of the anti-immigration 'activists' are aware we're quite lax here on a lot of appalling behavior here. A lot of behaviors only meet our criminal definitions if repeated between individuals. This includes sexual remarks but also recording people coming and going to work, making vague suggestions as to knowing where people live, showing up outside their houses with balaclavas etc.

I don't think we should tolerate any of it to be honest.

I think it's in all of our interests that people coming here are treated with respect, fairness and dignity.

I think it's especially true that people who will be living here in the longer term are given every fair chance to live a happy and productive life. Nobody should be striving for a 'two-tier' society.

It's shocking yet unsurprising. And it will get worse.

The residents of these sites are often segregated according to nationality to reduce the risk of conflicts, yet we're expected to accept that they will integrate well into wider society.

The main thing to remember is that you're a racist if you have a problem with dangerous government-sanctioned shanty towns being put up overnight on your doorstep 😂

That's quite simply untrue.

More weak attempts to try portray IPAs as some sort of deviant group.

It's logical that with large influxes from the most lawless regions of the world bring with them the social problems of those regions, especially when the strategy is to create ghettos for young men from these regions.

The open border brigade will tell you that IPs are the same as everyone else so long as it suits them to do so (e.g. asylum seeker is no more inclined towards criminality than an Irish person). But they'll also tell you that IPs are different when it suits them (sure isn't diversity is our strength!). So difference is only accepted when it is a positive. This epitomises the inconsistent and self-contradictory nonsense of the open-border Marxist ideologue (or whatever you want to call them).

Didnt they turn the EP site into a refugee site when it was over last year?

You're right and God only knows what's going to happen in the future.

Look at the efforts so far with these tent sites. Crooksling and Newtownmountkennedy - filthy dangerous kips with gangs running about inside them (see previously referenced article for this). And there are only a few occupants in these sites compared to what they want to open in the likes of Ashbourne.

How are they going to open 30+ sites to house over a thousand men each?

The document I shared earlier gave total number of asylum arrivals for several years across the late nineties and noughties.

As other posters have verified, the peak at this time was 11.6k. I was mistaken to say it was higher then nationally, but per capita it was.

If you look online you'll find breakdowns in nationalities arriving at this time, feel free to find these sources to verify your claims it was mostly people from Eastern Europe. From my recollection there were a lot of African and middle eastern people. Quite a few from Iran and Afghanistan I think given the wars at the time.

Don't forget, there is a huge number of government funded NGO's out there with a small army of advisors. You can be sure that each IP applicant is well aware and supported in getting every single entitlement going.

The worst thing about this is there was a group of Ukrainians living there that got shipped out to Clifden. The locals didn't have an issue with the Ukrainians but they've been given no indication of who's being moved in and there's over 100 people going in to a 23 room hotel right on the town centre.

Why not leave the people who were there and building some sort of existence alone rather than rocking the boat for the sake of it in two communities. Government policy is an absolute shìtshow.

Don't forget, at no stage are we allowed to even countenance deporting such people. The situation here is quite the opposite, this government will be at pains to defend them all equally, regardless of behaviour. In a sane society, a migrant who assaults staff or is taking drugs should face an automatic deportation order. It shouldn't even be in question. You have one shot at an IP application, if you fcuk it up, tough luck, you're on the next plane home.