"Those damn foreigners again"

[faceman]

Saw this article in the Indo today. I bleeding hate the paper but the article does raise a valid question or 2, in a round about way.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/co...e-1456226.html

In summary the article discusses statistics from the CSO that shows that Nigerians are the second beneficiaries of state paid rent in Ireland yet only 38% of Nigerians at working age are working.

The journalist is trying to suggest that no one wants to talk about the topic because its *controversial*!

What do you think? Best left for pub banter? Do you really give a toss if a mere 3,024 non EU citizens are availing of free rent when we live in a country of almost 5m people?

[Steyr]

Controversial my hole, they should all be working, contributing to the Economy.

[mike65]

Eh? A bit late Faceman.

Mike.

[Captain Ginger]

Originally Posted by Steyr

Controversial my hole, they should all be working, contributing to the Economy.

+1

[godtabh]

Originally Posted by mike65

Eh? A bit late Faceman.

Mike.

How so?

[baldbear]

They should be shipped out if they wont work. Sroungers.

[godtabh]

Originally Posted by baldbear

They should be shipped out if they wont work. Sroungers.

I see you put a lot of thought into that

[Shyster]

Originally Posted by Captain Ginger

+1

+2

You can't just expect to come over here, not work, and get money from the state when you are contributing nothing to the economy. Some of the foreigners are getting social welfare for everything and anything, rent allowances and grants to go to college here

[chin_grin]

Originally Posted by baldbear

They should be shipped out if they wont work. Sroungers.

Eh.........um..........(sits in wait for this comment to be pounced on <- not proper Engerlish! OMG!)

[copeyhagen]

im all for the argument that if they dont wanna work, then they can gtfo.

and dont get me started on the shower of cu*ts that are out begging in town with babies...

[Sizzler]

Originally Posted by Letters Section, Todays Independent

Tuesday August 19 2008

KEVIN Myers’ recent article on immigration understates the problem with Nigerian immigration and social welfare benefits.
According to the Department of Trade’s records, 332 work permits were granted to Nigerians over the years while fewer than 150 were granted refugee status during the same period by the minister for justice.


Stated Government policy and Irish immigration law prohibits the payment of welfare benefits to non-EU nationals, other than those granted refugee status. That, in effect, means the maximum number of Nigerians eligible to claim welfare benefits here is 150.


A massive number of Nigerians have immigrated illegally to Ireland. The previous Minister for Justice stated that no amnesty was to be granted to these people, yet a scheme was designed to allow them remain in Ireland called the IBC/05 scheme.


This scheme granted the right of full welfare benefits to these illegal immigrants.


Those who came to Ireland illegally may, if they so choose, claim unemployment and rental accommodation payments and all other welfare benefits including medical cards.


In effect, the scheme created a new category of immigrant, one that has no lawful basis. Thousands of illegal Nigerian immigrants have never worked in Ireland, yet the Irish taxpayer has to pay for them for the rest of their natural lives.


The IBC/05 scheme was grafted on to existing immigration law, even though no legislation for the provision of welfare benefits to illegal immigrants exists. No Bill to accommodate it was brought before the Oireachtas and no vote on this scheme was ever taken even though it requires a massive diversion of publicly raised funds destined for other purposes and voted on by Dail Eireann.


The scheme was implemented in January 2005. More illegal immigrants were granted leave to remain here under this scheme then than the combined total of legal immigrants granted work permits from non-EU countries over the past four years.


Some 23,178 Nigerians are registered with the Department of social welfare. How is this number possible?


Extrapolating from the figures published last week Nigerians alone are receiving a minimum of €100m in benefits per year. This figure is likely much higher.


The scale of the problem is apparent to ordinary Irish people.


The regulation and enforcement of immigration law and policies is currently in a state of anarchy. Resentment of this injustice against the Irish people is ignored by the political establishment and allowed to fester.


I voted ‘No’ in the Lisbon referendum because of immigration issues. This was the first public expression of that resentment. The time for a debate was before this problem got out of hand, not now. What is now required is action, deportations. We need the political expression of this resentment and soon.


FRANK MAGEE


DUBLIN 17

Pretty much somes it up for me.

[Captain Ginger]

I have no problem with people coming over here from wherever if they're willing to earn an honest living, pay their taxes and give back to the country they're taking from.

I don't like the idea of people coming over thinking it's an easy ride and us tax payers will just support them with a smile.

[dlofnep]

I've no time for any dole spongers. Be it Irish, Nigerian or any other nationality. Earn your keep! Or begone.

[Neamhshuntasach]

I hate all that PC controvesy bollix that surrounds points raised about non nationals. Everybody dances around it as if they are afraid they'll be accused of being racist.

But if it's ignored it's gonna create a divide because they'll grow up here never being fully integrated. I was in town the other day and a group of Africans were running amok on O Connell street outside Dr. Quirkey's. About 20 of them fighting each other in 2 groups and bumping into people at the bus stop and shouting and all that stuff. You could see the old people at the bus stops looked afraid because they looked like they wanted to kill each other they way they were going on. 2 Garda cars drove by and never stopped. There were about 3 guards at the corner of Henry street who could see down and a Guard popped his head out to see what all the noise was from the Garda station on O Connell street. Not a thing was done about this and it went on for about 15 minutes or so. But i guarantee you if that was a bunch of Irish scum bags they would have been down pulling everyone away into cars.

Stuff like the above is just going to create ghettos and the feeling that they can get away with things because the Guards are afraid to go near them in case racism is screamed.

[andrew]

*Waits for anecdote regarding some extravagent benefit immigrants supposedly get.*

But yeah, if they can work they should work. If they're not working they should be deported. Simple as.

Edit:

I voted ‘No’ in the Lisbon referendum because of immigration issues.