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

No, we absolutely DON'T agree that we should move to State owned accommodation!! Unless it is a series of detention centres like Villawood in Australia, or those near airports in the UK. Please stop telling people what they think ok ?

If we have to invest any more money into this debacle it needs to be spent on:

Prevention of illegal entry where possible and if this means talking to the neighbours to help with the "border" then so be it;

Adding extra staff to the process so it doesn't take 13 months for a case to be heard - and NO ONE who comes in without documentation should be allowed into the country proper until they have been investigated and we know who they are. I have to show my passport every time I board a flight and it is scanned at the airport - if you don't have it when you land we know you have given it to an organised trafficker to reuse. So we need technology to scan a passport at every entry point - the EU has the money, we just need the balls to ask them.

Making sure those who should be kicked out are sent packing as soon as possible, if this means detaining them for as long as it takes to charter a flight or series of flights again so be it.

I'm tried of hearing "they're just here for a better life". Great, apply for a work visa and do it right. If you don't qualify then don't come. Other hits that keep coming - "fleeing war and persecution! - no the majority are not; "international obligations" - we don't have any save taking a certain number direct from refugee camps in Syria etc and those from Ukraine - which we have done.

It's an NGO led scam and whilst O'Moron and his idiotic supporters go back to their posh Killiney gaffs, they people they lied to to encourage them to come here sleep on the streets when they should be assessed promptly, no appeal after appeal and sent back - Geldof may have espoused "feed the world" 40 years ago; I doubt he meant that should include all inclusive facilities.

I haven't heard of anyone swimming across the Irish sea yet.

I'm guessing most are being brought in by boat, plane or automobile or are you suggesting they are flying the planes etc themselves?

It's a matter of incentives. Make it more unpleasant to stay here than it is to leave, and people will deport themselves.

The consequences of that are a matter for the countries they end up in, not for us.

The problem is that the realistic answers require a hard-headed nationalist selfishness. That's a value you can't reconcile yourself to, so you present the task as impossible when it isn't.