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Irish Illegals

  • 09-03-2006 2:59pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭


    From the Irish Times
    Capitol Hill became a sea of green and white yesterday as thousands of undocumented Irish immigrants came out of the shadows to petition Congress for immigration reform.

    Wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Legalize the Irish", they came from Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and many places in between, rising before dawn to travel to Washington in specially chartered buses.

    They were rewarded with appearances from some of the most influential figures in Congress, including the two front-runners to succeed President Bush - Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton.

    "It is so heartening to see you here. You are really here on behalf of what America means, America's values, America's hopes," Ms Clinton said.

    The rally was organised by the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, a three-month-old grassroots group that has transformed the campaign on behalf of Irish immigrants.

    It came as a Senate committee started discussing plans for immigration reform, including a bill sponsored by Mr McCain and Senator Edward Kennedy that would give America's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants the chance to embark on a path to US citizenship.

    Ms Clinton said the Irish should join with other immigrant groups to keep pressure on Congress to pass a bill that would strengthen border security but allow the undocumented to work legally in the US.

    Ok now if this was Ireland and a bunch of Illegal Immigrants protested outside Leinster House, Do you think Enda Kenny would be out in support or that The Minister For Justice wouldn't be on the phone to the Gaurds to deport them.

    Prehaps those Irish should come back to the country they came from.

    Or else get pregnant. :) Like Eamonn De Valera's Mother.

    Double Standards. But I am sure someone will disagree with me.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    Elmo wrote:
    Double Standards.
    Yes but they aren't Muslims or blacks so its ok.

    The Irish don't have a history of anti-social and violent behaviour ... oh wait :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,107 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    Elmo wrote:
    Prehaps those Irish should come back to the country they came from.

    Sarcasm aside...if it is becoming impossible to live a decent life as an illegal immigrant in the US becuase of increased security checks etc perhaps they should leave or try to get their status sorted out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 alan1978


    I think we should not be helping our own illegals in America, they should be told to return back to Ireland. The Nigerian's will obvious case of double standards to try and get an amnesty for themselves in Ireland.

    We should not be giving RAR and others any excuse to allow Kunle and others to stay in this state. Illegals, be the Irish or foreign should be treated the same.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    fly_agaric wrote:
    Sarcasm aside...if it is becoming impossible to live a decent life as an illegal immigrant in the US becuase of increased security checks etc perhaps they should leave or try to get their status sorted out.


    some people have gone to the get registered and ended up being whisked off immediatly to a dentention for a year?

    imagine that?

    I happened across some site that type of which alan1978 might frequent and it was some anti-communist cuban guy who originally arrived illegally saying that illegal cubans should be rounded up and sent back? wtf?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    We should not be giving RAR and others any excuse to allow Kunle and others to stay in this state. Illegals, be the Irish or foreign should be treated the same.

    See there are probs with this whole situation.

    Illegal aliens aren't about to pop around to their local Garda station, and we have allowed people to stay in the country for 3 or more years. IMO if you are in any country for 3 or more years and are working then you shouldn't be deported, especially when you have now go a live in your new country.

    It is daft not to process these things quickly, that’s for the sake of illegals who are illegitimate in countries and illegals who are legitimate in countries.

    All of the Irish Illegals in America have no legitimate reasons to be in the US.

    However their are many Foreigners who are legitimately in Ireland and other countries, who are not being treated legitimately.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 alan1978


    Imo, those who are found to be bogus asylum seekers should be deported from Ireland. It shows how much this country has been abused when u think that the Irish illegals in America are less than a tenth of the Illegal Nigerians in Ireland. There should be no sad stories, those who are liers should be sent from our shores. Equally, Irish Aliens have no valid reason to be in America, they should be sent back to Ireland, we are dam rich over here!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    You'd have to wonder at the intelligence of a bunch of illegals gathering like this. You can just see the INS marking them, one to one.

    Reminds me of the old cable-stealers "prize" highlighted in the Simpsons.

    adam


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭ronbyrne2005


    i think these irish illegals have a cheek.
    why arent they campaigning for all illegals to be given residency? are the mexicans etc not as worthy as the irish? you cant give an amnesty to one nationality/group,the only way they will get an amnesty for the irish is if theres one for every illegal in america and the republicans wont allow that once they control senate and congress.
    the economy in america uses these illegals to do jobs americans wont and pay them less,if they were legalised they would have to get better wages/conditions and could take legal peoples jobs. americans feel they cant be seen to reward illegal behaviour as if theres an amnesty now lots more will come illegally in the expectation of further amnesty.
    the irish illegals made their beds and now they should lie in them,they have established a life there but theres sufficent work etc in ireland if if they came home and saved some capital they could get american residency as a business investor if they buy a business for more than 250k(i think)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Irish illegals in America are less than a tenth of the Illegal Nigerians in Ireland.

    I am sure you can prove that point with actual figures?
    America is a far bigger country you would have to compare america with the EU and not just suggest that asylum seekers or illegal aliens all come from Nigeria because they don't or that they just arrive in Ireland cause they don't. That is your own tunnel vision.

    You seem to have an obsession with Nigerians, I am sure their are illegal immergants from the Americas (Canada, USA, Central and South), the Africas, New Zealand and Austrialia. And prehaps even illegal immergrants from Europe (Russia, Norway).
    those who are found to be bogus asylum seekers should be deported from Ireland.

    Of course just like any illegals who are not Asylum Seekers, from any country not just Ireland.
    There should be no sad stories, those who are liers should be sent from our shores.

    Non-bogus Asylum seekers stories will be sad and that is why they are seeking asylum. Liar != Sad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,107 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    some people have gone to the get registered and ended up being whisked off immediatly to a dentention for a year?

    imagine that?

    Unfortunately if you are residing in a country illegally that is the kind of risk you take.
    You are at the mercy of the authorities if they decide to stop turning a blind eye and crack down as the US has after Sept. 11th 2001.
    People going out there to work as illegals in the 80's knew the score very well AFAICR.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    People going out there to work as illegals in the 80's knew the score very well AFAICR.

    But they had more reasons to be in the country then the current Irish Illegals. The risk is far greater now! it is such as waste. They cann't return home because it will be stamped on their passports that they over stayed their welcome. Stupid and Foolish. Nothing to do with the american dream.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 alan1978


    I admit, I am obsessed with the problem of bogus Nigerian asylum claims in Ireland, and with dam good reason. Ireland received the second highest number of asylum applications in main industrialised countries from nationals of Nigeria in 2004. Just how many turned out to be genuine - 0.6%. These are government figures - check them out youreself. Thousands of liers, con artists and basically scumbags have turned up on our shores over the last number of years. They should not be welcomed!

    People like Kunle, the innocent student (he's probably 24 or more) turned out to be a criminal, he thankfully is going to be deported on the next flight. But these rules must work both ways, the Irish illegals must be sent back here.

    As a nationalist, I am ashamed of republicans such as Sinn Fein who called for a no vote in the citizenship referendum, and who call for an amnesty. People showed how out of touch they were by the massive yes victory.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    As a nationalist, I am ashamed of republicans such as Sinn Fein who called for a no vote in the citizenship referendum, and who call for an amnesty. People showed how out of touch they were by the massive yes victory.

    It nice to see that propaganda works.

    How did the citezenship referendum actually help. Have non-national women stopped having children in Ireland. Has it effected you as an indivdual. Minister McDowell suggests to the Irish people that he is a man who does things, he is not. He has yet to implement proper immigration law in this country. The citizenship referundum was a waste of money and time. It was a disgrase to the Irish public who voted in an unnessary law.

    By the way the minister told me that it was Russian who where coming into Ireland having baby and selling their birth certs. ?????????? I never heard so much cock and bull from this minister.
    As a nationalist, I am ashamed of republicans such as Sinn Fein who called for a no vote in the citizenship referendum, and who call for an amnesty.

    I am ashamed of the Irish Public who voted in something that could be control at the ports of our country and took away childrens rights not adults rights but childrens rigth. Now we have as situation where we divide children into groups where we continue to divide and ghetoise people.
    Thousands of liers, con artists and basically scumbags have turned up on our shores over the last number of years. They should not be welcomed!

    Not all nigerians are like that. Just in the same way not all Irish people are wife bashers, drinkers, rapist, child abusers etc etc.

    What about the russian the minister talk about. What about all his wishy washy talk. He has done nothing in this country.

    Eamonn De Valera was an american through birth right its the bases for Irish Republicanism.

    I am ashamed of the Irish who continual deny the basic rights of Children. From our horrible history of child abuse


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,107 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    Elmo wrote:
    But they had more reasons to be in the country then the current Irish Illegals. The risk is far greater now! it is such as waste. They cann't return home because it will be stamped on their passports that they over stayed their welcome. Stupid and Foolish. Nothing to do with the american dream.

    By "knew the score" I mean they knew that if the Govt. cracked down or they drew attention to themselves in some way they would be booted home - via some time in jail if very unlucky - and certainly would not be allowed into the US again.
    Also - I'd bet most of the "current Irish illegals" are people who originally went there in the 80's to work and have been living there on borrowed time ever since.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Freelancer


    alan1978 wrote:
    I admit, I am obsessed with the problem of bogus Nigerian asylum claims in Ireland, and with dam good reason. Ireland received the second highest number of asylum applications in main industrialised countries from nationals of Nigeria in 2004. Just how many turned out to be genuine - 0.6%. These are government figures - check them out youreself.

    Actually the rule on this forum is that if you state something as fact, you must support it.

    So be a dear and find us the numbers for illegal Nigerians in Ireland and the figures for rejected applications.

    On and the league table for asylum applications in main industrialised countries.

    Ta.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Elmo wrote:
    Eamonn De Valera was an american through birth right its the bases for Irish Republicanism.

    I am ashamed of the Irish who continual deny the basic rights of Children. From our horrible history of child abuse

    I'm ashamed to be Irish because of De Valera's refusal to allow Jewish refugees into Ireland during WWII.

    Sometimes I think that somewhere in one of the lower rings of hell, himself and McQuaid rotate slowly on a spit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    People like Kunle, the innocent student (he's probably 24 or more) turned out to be a criminal, he thankfully is going to be deported on the next flight. But these rules must work both ways, the Irish illegals must be sent back here.

    He is 20. It was one innocident do to with his ID, which his teacher gave out to him about.

    http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2005/04/06/story379379737.asp

    I wouldn't call him a criminal. I am sure many Irish student have used their older brother and sisters passports to gain access to nightclubs and pubs duting the J1 visits to america.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 alan1978


    The Citizenship referendum was the BEST thing to happen to this country in years. Nigerians (and other nationals) were abusing this loophole in order to obtain residency and social welfare benefits here. If anything, they were abusing their children by using them in such a way. Mc Dowell unlike that fool O'Donoghue, did his job to protect Ireland's borders.

    Ultra liberals like you cannot force this kind of abuse down the throath's of the majority, that is why we voted yes in such large numbers.

    Back to the discussion at hand, the Illegal Irish in the States should have the sense and common decency to return home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    I'm ashamed to be Irish because of De Valera's refusal to allow Jewish refugees into Ireland during WWII.

    Indeed as i said we regressed even futher into are inward looking selfs. I bring up the point about Eamonn De Valera as he was Born in america had american citizenship because of this and he was not excuted by the british because of this "loop hole".

    This loop hole saved a very young child from being sent back to his abusive perants but because of his Irish citizenship the welfare authorities where able to keep that child in Ireland.

    K Alan.

    mmm let me think about Irish Boards and that one up north, does McDowell the unionist care?

    Since the introduction of said law there are more immergrants coming into Ireland. He has done nothing, but you keep think that way. K.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Elmo wrote:
    He is 20. It was one innocident do to with his ID, which his teacher gave out to him about.

    Not to mention driving around in his car without any tax or insurance...

    http://www.indymedia.ie/article/71213


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    alan1978 wrote:
    The Citizenship referendum was the BEST thing to happen to this country in years. Nigerians (and other nationals) were abusing this loophole in order to obtain residency and social welfare benefits here. If anything, they were abusing their children by using them in such a way. Mc Dowell unlike that fool O'Donoghue, did his job to protect Ireland's borders.

    Ultra liberals like you cannot force this kind of abuse down the throath's of the majority, that is why we voted yes in such large numbers.

    Back to the discussion at hand, the Illegal Irish in the States should have the sense and common decency to return home.

    I'll summarise your posting thusly - "Know your place".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    I he is just one case and doesn't really prove very much. He is a young stupid kid just like all of the other boy racers out there.

    Also lots of people do that.
    I'll summarise your posting thusly - "Know your place".

    Didn't realise the thought police were members of Boards. You know people are going to have different oppinions. Its call freedom of speech.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 alan1978


    He was found guilty of driving without tax or insurance on 2 seperate occassions, he's also a bogus asylum seeker - therefore he gets deported. Interestingly enough, the supreme court ruled last week that someone could be deported during an application period for a judicial review, this should stop their delaying tactics. RAR and the other lefty organisations will have found that ruling a huge blow their anarchist campaign to stop deportations.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    RAR and the other lefty organisations will have found that ruling a huge blow their anarchist campaign to stop deportations.

    Ultra right wing and ultra left wing what ever.

    I would never suggest that deportations should not happen. I he has committed a crime yes he should be deported. He as I said he is stupid to think that he should remain in a country if he has committed a crime.

    I am not a liberal, I am not a communist, I am not a capitalist and I am not a conservative. I am a person who stand firmly in the centre. If i need something from the left I will go there and If I need something from the right I will go there.

    You need both for things to work to be totally right or left wing doesn't work. E.G. America and Russia.

    As I siad before these review need to be done quickly not after 3 or 4 years of arrival and/or notification to authorities that you are in a country. Espically when children are envolved. Deporting children from any country who grew up in that country is wrong. It was wrong to let people stay in any country if after 3 years you where going to deport them. Thats the problem not that they are illegal but that we aren't dealing with the in an appropiate manner when the arrive in the country.

    3 years is way to late and the referendum didn't do anything to improve that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 alan1978


    The referendum had exactly the desired effect, we were no longer the only EU state which offered unconditional citizenship based on the birth of a child. It also had the effect of reducing the plague of bogus Nigerian asylum claims substantially. Asylum applications can now be dealth with within 6 weeks of arrival, before the citizenship referendum it was more like 2 - 3 years. Also, the Supreme Court ruling last week will help scotch further delaying tactics. It ruled that someone could be deported during an application period for a judicial review, this was a major bonus for Mc Dowell.

    We are lucky to have a Minister like him, he's no unionist either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    We are lucky to have a Minister like him, he's no unionist either.

    He is the biggest unionist of them all.

    You mention Nigerians yet he mentioned Russian, so what is it Russian or Nigerians?

    Do you hate nigerians that much?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 alan1978


    No I don't! I only hate the massive amount of scumbags who have abused this country and drained it's resources. The mechanic who works on my car is a Nigerian, I have great respect for him. He himself is ashamed of his countrymen who have given Nigerians a terrible name around the world. He came here via the proper channels, not via a false asylum claim.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    Elmo wrote:
    From the Irish Times



    Ok now if this was Ireland and a bunch of Illegal Immigrants protested outside Leinster House, Do you think Enda Kenny would be out in support or that The Minister For Justice wouldn't be on the phone to the Gaurds to deport them.

    Prehaps those Irish should come back to the country they came from.

    Or else get pregnant. :) Like Eamonn De Valera's Mother.

    Double Standards. But I am sure someone will disagree with me.

    American relies hugely upon undocumented workers, any bill to legalise them is purely an excercise in self interest, not humaniterian. I'm tired of people holdign up these very transparent examples of why ireland is crap, hey, why don't you go to states if their so easy going on the auld immigrants.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Freelancer


    Oh Alan, just to ask you again, you've gone a page now, I was wondering if you had a chance to back up three very specific "facts"

    Please check the forum rules, about stating something as a fact.
    Freelancer wrote:
    alan1978 wrote:
    I admit, I am obsessed with the problem of bogus Nigerian asylum claims in Ireland, and with dam good reason. Ireland received the second highest number of asylum applications in main industrialised countries from nationals of Nigeria in 2004. Just how many turned out to be genuine - 0.6%. These are government figures - check them out youreself.

    Actually the rule on this forum is that if you state something as fact, you must support it.

    So be a dear and find us the numbers for illegal Nigerians in Ireland and the figures for rejected applications.

    On and the league table for asylum applications in main industrialised countries.

    Ta.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    He came here via the proper channels, not via a false asylum claim

    You sure did you check him out? You should report him to McDowell just in case.

    Your better off being more general so rather then saying Nigerians you should go with Foreigner (but then we would have some one giving out about the word foreigner so you would have to go with Non Nationals and then you have EU non nationals and eastern eu non nationals OH OK just call them nigerians).

    JOKE by the way. ^^^^ all of it.

    So his children should be allowed be Irish Citizens, all is fair after all. You see what we did was to not give ligitement people that right.

    There are a massive amount of Irish scumbag that should be deport to the baskets IMO.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭dathi1


    Double Standards. But I am sure someone will disagree with me.
    No..its simple really. We built America...they owe us. There's no evidence of Nigerian involvement in Ireland until the Schengen Agreement.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭ronbyrne2005


    dathi1 wrote:
    No..its simple really. We built America...they owe us. There's no evidence of Nigerian involvement in Ireland until the Schengen Agreement.
    thats crap,what about the chinese british italains etc etc who also built america,i dont see the irish illegals appealing for them to given legal status.me feiners all of them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Freelancer


    dathi1 wrote:
    No..its simple really. We built America...they owe us. There's no evidence of Nigerian involvement in Ireland until the Schengen Agreement.

    Brillant we built american we get to stay. Tell you what you go tell the chinese, and the italians. I'll go tell the Russians, they can all go illegaly work in the US, because they "built it".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 alan1978


    Just because we had a role in developing America does not mean Irish people should be allowed to stay there. True it's an historical link between 2 nations....but that's all it is. Whatever the US government decides should be respected, I think this public lobbying is actually very sad. Also the publicity stunt pulled in Washington by the Irish in green tops will not have been missed by immigration officials. It's not as if Ireland isn't a very wealthy nation itself, we are not in the same league as the Mexican's for example.

    Every Country has it's own rules and regulations on immigration, we should respect their system, just as we foolishly expect the scammers from Nigeria to respect ours.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Freelancer


    Oh Alan, third time asking;
    Freelancer wrote:
    Find us the numbers for illegal Nigerians in Ireland and the figures for rejected applications.

    On and the league table for asylum applications in main industrialised countries.

    And just so you know;
    When offering fact, please offer relevant linkage, or at least source. Simply saying "a quick search on google...." is often, but not always, enough. If you do not do this upon posting, then please be willing to do so on request.

    You've offered numerous dubious "facts" on this thread I'm going to ask you politely once again to show linkage to support the following;
    alan1978 wrote:
    It shows how much this country has been abused when u think that the Irish illegals in America are less than a tenth of the Illegal Nigerians in Ireland

    and
    alan1978 wrote:
    I admit, I am obsessed with the problem of bogus Nigerian asylum claims in Ireland, and with dam good reason. Ireland received the second highest number of asylum applications in main industrialised countries from nationals of Nigeria in 2004. Just how many turned out to be genuine - 0.6%. These are government figures - check them out youreself.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 alan1978


    You are obviously obsessed with the rights of bogus Nigerian Asylum seekers. Let me guess, would you be a fan/member of RAR or just a plain old ultra liberal. Anyway I couldn't be arsed providing u with all the figures at my disposal, but here is a snapshot: Click Here

    I work in this area so I hope you can appreciate why I am so interested in it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Freelancer


    alan1978 wrote:
    You are obviously obsessed with the rights of bogus Nigerian Asylum seekers.

    Lets see, how do we start, with a piece of mud slinging, you're the one admitting to be obessesed with nigerian asylum seekers.
    Let me guess, would you be a fan/member of RAR or just a plain old ultra liberal.

    More mud slinging.
    Anyway I couldn't be arsed providing u with all the figures at my disposal, but here is a snapshot:

    Followed by a quick boast about the power and knowledge at your disposal, but you can't be bothered entertaining us with it.
    Click Here

    Onto your .pdf

    I'll start my objections to your .pdf with this. Theres no source. It's simply called asylum brief. Theres no name, we don't know if this is a private report, refugee council report, department of foreign affairs, no way to trace, who or what wrote this report, or to allow us to verify any of its findings.

    Now ontop of all this
    alan1978 wrote:
    It shows how much this country has been abused when u think that the Irish illegals in America are less than a tenth of the Illegal Nigerians in Ireland

    The report does not verify this.
    Ireland received the second highest number of asylum applications in main industrialised countries from nationals of Nigeria in 2004.

    yes this is true a massive 1776, down from 3000 odd in 2003. It's an odd statistic why we have more Nigerians than other nationalities, however we're 9th in the EU wide table for total number of asylum seekers so suggesting we're a soft touch on immigration isn't true.
    alan1978 wrote:
    Ireland received the second highest number of asylum applications in main industrialised countries from nationals of Nigeria in 2004. Just how many turned out to be genuine - 0.6%.

    The second half of this statement the 0.6% isn't verified by this document.

    So just to re-iterate.

    Your unverifible, totally anonymous document, supports just one of your claims. Wow. I'm convinced.
    I work in this area so I hope you can appreciate why I am so interested in it.

    Ah more unverifible claptrap.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 alan1978


    Ok,

    Source is as the link url suggests......department of justice. We are 2nd in the EU ;eague table for Nigerian asylum claims........http://www.justice.ie/80256E01003A02CF/vWeb/pcJUSQ6D6ER3-en

    If liberals like you were in charge, we as a nation would be bankrupt. :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Freelancer


    Well done alan you've sourced the document.

    It still doesn't verify your claims that
    It shows how much this country has been abused when u think that the Irish illegals in America are less than a tenth of the Illegal Nigerians in Ireland

    and

    Ireland received the second highest number of asylum applications in main industrialised countries from nationals of Nigeria in 2004. Just how many turned out to be genuine - 0.6%.
    If liberals like you were in charge, we as a nation would be bankrupt.

    Yeah compared to how well we'd be doing under your inane mixture of extremist right wing republican nationalism....... :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 alan1978


    I wonder why there was a sudden drop in application......hmmm maybe because they feared that their children wouldn't get Irish passports due to the referendum. No passport for the baby meant no automatic right to residency for the parents. All of a sudden Ireland was not as attractive.

    Any by the way, my views are not extreme right wing, they are in common with the majority of people. I fully support the new law where children born to non nationals are not entitled to Irish Citizenship unless one of the parents was lawfully resident in Ireland for at least three out of the four years before the child’s birth. This law prevents the citizenship tourism we have had in the past.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,895 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    Reality check one: the asylum applications massively jumped in line with our economic progress from basket case to successful. The weather didnt get better afaik.

    Reality check two: the richest and wealthiest of the asylum seekers are those who makes it to our shores. I remember reading an article in the Irish Times - not exactly the reactionary right wing times by any means - where a Nigerian woman commented on how hard it was to adjust to life in Ireland without a maid.

    Reality Check Three: We need immigrants to keep our economy going. Quite frankly were at full employment. Anyone who cant get a job in these times just doesnt want one. Simple as. The fact that we need to import workers speaks a lot to the lack of people willing to take jobs in Ireland. Immigrants arent taking jobs from anyone, theyre taking jobs that no one else will take.

    Reality Check Four: Irish people have gone to america, the UK, europe for generations. This is a policy decision for Americans, the British and Europeans respectively. Far as Im concerned, If Sean Og down the road moves to the US illegally, Im no more responsible for him or his actions than I am if he decides to murder some guy for the craic. Whatever political ructions errupt in the US over Irish immigrants does not, and should not, affest the decisions made by Irish politicians for their Irish electorate.

    If the US legislature decides its good policy to legalise illegal irish immigrants, good for them. I dont care. Im not an illegal Irish immigrant. The chinese have just as much claim to being "the hands that built america" in cringe inducing Bono speak. It should have no impact on our own estimation of whats good policy in Ireland. I doubt anyone is arguing that because the US thinks its good policy to execute some criminals that Ireland should execute criminals too.


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    alan1978 wrote:
    You are obviously obsessed with the rights of bogus Nigerian Asylum seekers. Let me guess, would you be a fan/member of RAR or just a plain old ultra liberal. Anyway I couldn't be arsed providing u with all the figures at my disposal, but here is a snapshot: Click Here

    I work in this area so I hope you can appreciate why I am so interested in it.
    Take a months ban for abuse and ignoring the charter

    Thread locked.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭zuma


    Locked?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Freelancer


    alan1978 wrote:
    I wonder why there was a sudden drop in application......hmmm maybe because they feared that their children wouldn't get Irish passports due to the referendum. No passport for the baby meant no automatic right to residency for the parents. All of a sudden Ireland was not as attractive.

    Still doesn't back up your assertions re 0.6% of applications failing or the number of illegals here.
    Any by the way, my views are not extreme right wing, they are in common with the majority of people. I fully support the new law where children born to non nationals are not entitled to Irish Citizenship unless one of the parents was lawfully resident in Ireland for at least three out of the four years before the child’s birth. This law prevents the citizenship tourism we have had in the past.

    Yeah and no one ever lost an election scaremongering about immigration, the fact that doctors in most major hosipitals came out aganist McDowells claims.

    You remind me of Justin Barrett post the divorce referendum convinced he was going to sweep to power because since all of the parties had supported the divorce amendment, 42% of irish people weren't represented by mainstream parties, and this was his time.


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    zuma wrote:
    Locked?

    I might be later on tonight :D


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