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Over 33% of prison committals in 2008 are foreigners.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭unwyse


    takes all sorts;) keeps my beeemr looking great though;)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    unwyse wrote: »
    takes all sorts;) keeps my beeemr looking great though;)

    Prison warden?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    They should expel anyone who breaks the law and is sentenced to a jail term.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2009/jul/19/over-6-of-all-asylum-seekers-already-facing-crimin/
    OVER six per cent of all asylum claims in Ireland are coming from people who have already broken the law and are facing criminal charges.

    Figures obtained by the Sunday Tribune show that 51 people applied for refugee status from behind bars in the first three months of this year.

    The vast majority of the claims came from individuals detained at Cloverhill remand prison where they were facing criminal charges for crimes including drug trafficking, robbery and fraud.

    Its a crime wave!

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/2500-jailed-for-not-paying-fines-as-prisons-feel-squeeze-1859831.html
    THE number of people being jailed for failing to pay fines has almost doubled in one year, the Irish Independent has learned.

    Some 2,520 people were locked up last year because they couldn't, or wouldn't, pay court- ordered fines compared to just 1,335 the previous year, new figures reveal.

    The economic downturn and increased enforcement of committal warrants by gardai are the main factors for the rise in jail terms handed out to cash-strapped householders.

    It is understood most cases related to non-payment of fines for road traffic offences. A small number are believed to involve other minor offences, including non-payment of television licence fines.

    Now thats a story.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    PaulieD wrote: »
    It seems our prisons are now enjoying the colour, vibrancy and enrichment as the rest of the population.:rolleyes:
    So you are a racist?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,956 ✭✭✭CHD


    Dey tuk our jurbs tbh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    CHD wrote: »
    Dey tuk our jurbs tbh

    Dey tuk er prison spaces!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    mike65 wrote: »

    That equates to one person claiming asylum every second day from behind bars and you see it as a non story? Jesus wept. We are being taken for mugs.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0722/breaking63.htm

    A shockingly high figure of approx. 300 million is being spent on asylum seekers each year. This is an unaccountable amount of money. It averages at approx. 20,000 per asylum application. As I said, mugs.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    Dudess wrote: »
    So you are a racist?

    What what what?:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    TheZohan wrote: »
    They should expel anyone who breaks the law and is sentenced to a jail term.

    How can they extradite if the crime is committed in Ireland? Otherwise they wouldn't be in prison here?

    They should certainly deport any criminals, especially drug dealers. For some reason, I think the OP's motives go a little beyond criminality and is a pop at the non-national community of Ireland.

    If there are issues, we should tackle them. Anyone drug-trafficking here should be immediately deported. If they don't respect the lives of us and our children, then they have lost their right to stay here.

    Still - we shouldn't use this as a means of creating hysteria. I've had the pleasure of working with some great foreigners, and I think this may be a pop at the entire community - although I could be wrong.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    dlofnep wrote: »
    How can they extradite if the crime is committed in Ireland? Otherwise they wouldn't be in prison here?

    They should certainly deport any criminals, especially drug dealers. For some reason, I think the OP's motives go a little beyond criminality and is a pop at the non-national community of Ireland.

    If there are issues, we should tackle them. Anyone drug-trafficking here should be immediately deported. If they don't respect the lives of us and our children, then they have lost their right to stay here.

    Still - we shouldn't use this as a means of creating hysteria. I've had the pleasure of working with some great foreigners, and I think this may be a pop at the entire community - although I could be wrong.

    It is a pop at our immigration policies, or lack of them. The vast majority of foreigners in Ireland are game ball, my issue is with mass immigration, not immigration.

    Giving asylum to criminals, madness.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    dlofnep wrote: »
    How can they extradite if the crime is committed in Ireland? Otherwise they wouldn't be in prison here?

    I said expel, not extradite.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    From that Irish Times link, 300 million quid a yr spent on asylum applications. 2.26bn quid over the last 7yrs, now what the hell has FF been doing to spend so much on this area?
    It is understood most cases related to non-payment of fines for road traffic offences. A small number are believed to involve other minor offences, including non-payment of television licence fines.

    They should just become drug dealers, claim they had an underprivileged upbringing and they would get suspended sentences.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    gurramok wrote: »
    From that Irish Times link, 300 million quid a yr spent on asylum applications. 2.26bn quid over the last 7yrs, now what the hell has FF been doing to spend so much on this area?

    If FF brought the issue up the immigration industry would have screamed racism. It is time for the politically correct gloves to come off.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    CHD wrote: »
    Dey tuk our jurbs tbh

    Is that the best you can come up with?:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    TheZohan wrote: »
    I said expel, not extradite.

    You edited your post, silly goose :)

    Or maybe dlofnep is stoned on lemsip.

    Probably the latter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    The prison system would be fcuked even if their were no migrants

    it's very Irish to blame our problems on external forces though, and nothing new


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    The prison system would be fcuked even if their were no migrants

    it's very Irish to blame our problems on external forces though, and nothing new

    We have major social problems, for sure. But importing more criminals is hardly going to solve the problem now is it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭Size=everything


    Why are all your posts to do with immigration, religion or race?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    Why are all your posts to do with immigration, religion or race?

    You have spent your Saturday reading the posts of PaulieD. You will go far.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭SLUSK


    PaulieD wrote: »
    OVER six per cent of all asylum claims in Ireland are coming from people who have already broken the law and are facing criminal charges.

    http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2009/jul/19/over-6-of-all-asylum-seekers-already-facing-crimin/

    'Prison committals for the year jumped to 13,557 from just 11,934 in 2007. Almost a third of committals were for non-nationals. The increase placed a massive strain on the prison system, with nine of the State's 15 prisons operating at or above their full bed capacity during the year.'

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/2500-jailed-for-not-paying-fines-as-prisons-feel-squeeze-1859831.html

    It seems our prisons are now enjoying the colour, vibrancy and enrichment as the rest of the population.:rolleyes:

    Foreigners are usually much poorer than normal irish people, this is no excuse for commiting crimes of course, but poor people commit more crimes that would land you in jail.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Seven out of 10 favour immigration restrictions (Multi-page thread 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page)
    PaulieD

    Calls for Ireland to open its borders to Nigerians! (Multi-page thread 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page)
    PaulieD

    Over 33% of Irish prison population are foreigners. (Multi-page thread 1 2)
    PaulieD

    Agenda much? :rolleyes:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Seven out of 10 favour immigration restrictions (Multi-page thread 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page)
    PaulieD

    Calls for Ireland to open its borders to Nigerians! (Multi-page thread 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page)
    PaulieD

    Over 33% of Irish prison population are foreigners. (Multi-page thread 1 2)
    PaulieD

    Agenda much? :rolleyes:

    If you have a problem with any of my posts, I suggest you report them. Everything I have posted has been backed up with facts, figures and links.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭Size=everything


    PaulieD wrote: »
    You have spent your Saturday reading the posts of PaulieD. You will go far.

    No I just noticed that whenever you post its about immigration, race or religon.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    It's so refreshing to have a good old "let's blame the immigrants" thread. They're damn near extinct now that when AH shakes it's collective fist at the sky, it's due to impotent rage at "fatcat bankers" who range from the counter staff in their local AIB to Roberto Calvi.

    Can we make it complete by accusing anyone in favour of anything less than a pogrom of being part of an imaginary PC brigade?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    SLUSK wrote: »
    Foreigners are usually much poorer than normal irish people, this is no excuse for commiting crimes of course, but poor people commit more crimes that would land you in jail.

    That is a cop out, growing up, I would have been considered "poor" but I never committed crimes except for knacker drinking and such like.

    We have no clue how many foreigners are in the country, never mind their background. It is a crazy situation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    PaulieD wrote: »
    We have major social problems, for sure. But importing more criminals is hardly going to solve the problem now is it?

    I agree that there should be background checks done on anyone moving to Ireland, but it's a drop in the ocean when you take into account the amount of problems here already


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    Robbo wrote: »
    It's so refreshing to have a good old "let's blame the immigrants" thread. They're damn near extinct now that when AH shakes it's collective fist at the sky, it's due to impotent rage at "fatcat bankers" who range from the counter staff in their local AIB to Roberto Calvi.

    Can we make it complete by accusing anyone in favour of anything less than a pogrom of being part of an imaginary PC brigade?

    If you have nothing to contribute please dont post. The ostrich should be the Irish national bird.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    PaulieD wrote: »
    If you have a problem with any of my posts, I suggest you report them. Everything I have posted has been backed up with facts, figures and links.
    Except you don't.

    33% of prison committals may be non-Irish nationals, unfortunately 89% of the prison population is Irish.

    Have a look here at the Prison Services report for last year. Page 16 to save you a bit of time.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    I agree that there should be background checks done on anyone moving to Ireland, but it's a drop in the ocean when you take into account the amount of problems here already

    It is not a drop in the ocean, immigrants make up 15-20% of our population yet they make up 33% of our prison population.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Riverpineapple


    I think it's 35


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    PaulieD wrote: »
    If you have a problem with any of my posts, I suggest you report them. Everything I have posted has been backed up with facts, figures and links.

    I don't have a problem with your posts - I rarely read any. I was just highlighting that you have an agenda. That's all.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    dlofnep wrote: »
    I don't have a problem with your posts - I rarely read any. I was just highlighting that you have an agenda. That's all.

    Id just like to have my country back. I live in west Dublin, it feels as if I live in Warsaw or Lagos at times.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    PaulieD wrote: »
    Id just like to have my country back. I live in west Dublin, it feels as if I live in Warsaw or Lagos at times.
    Is is the heat or the relics of Stalinism?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭book smarts


    dlofnep wrote: »
    I don't have a problem with your posts - I rarely read any. I was just highlighting that you have an agenda. That's all.

    Just like your pro-IRA agenda


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Just like your pro-IRA agenda

    I don't have a pro-IRA agenda. I think you'll find that I support the peace process.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Robbo wrote: »
    Is is the heat or the relics of Stalinism?

    It is indeed very warm and humid today and there is a rise of socialism aka Labour Party :P


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    Just like your pro-IRA agenda

    Dont we all have an agenda of some sort?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    Robbo wrote: »
    Is is the heat or the relics of Stalinism?

    Its the feeling of being an outsider in ones own country.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭book smarts


    dlofnep wrote: »
    I don't have a pro-IRA agenda. I think you'll find that I support the peace process.

    You will never have a united Ireland. Never.
    How do you like those apples?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,956 ✭✭✭CHD


    PaulieD wrote: »
    Is that the best you can come up with?:rolleyes:
    Wana proper debate?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    You will never have a united Ireland. Never.
    How do you like those apples?

    Thanks Mystic Meg. Any chance of allowing the thread to get back on topic?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    CHD wrote: »
    Wana proper debate?

    By all means.....


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    PaulieD wrote: »
    By all means.....
    How come you won't address my post with the correct statistics, rather than an attention grabbing thread title to your own ends?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    Robbo wrote: »
    How come you won't address my post with the correct statistics, rather than an attention grabbing thread title to your own ends?

    As it is out of date. Read the article I linked to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    PaulieD wrote: »
    Its the feeling of being an outsider in ones own country.
    So how does one feel like an outsider in one's own country? Please elaborate...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    el_weirdo wrote: »
    So how does one feel like an outsider in one's own country? Please elaborate...

    In parts of West Dublin, immigrants make up the majority of the local population.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Figures? Data?
    And if so, what exactly is the problem with that?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD




    Where do you live?

    In parts of West Dublin, immigrant children are the majority in the local schools. This is Ireland, not Poland or Nigeria.:mad:

    The cheek of them to complain that we are racist for not building schools for them, how the hell where we suppossed to know hundreds of thousands of them would arrive in Ireland? Instead, Africans who were just off the plane were allowed to accuse us of racism, unhindered, for not having school places awaiting their children.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    PaulieD wrote: »
    In parts of West Dublin, immigrants make up the majority of the local population.

    very true ten years ago an estate near me was all irish now its 70% immigrant
    in five years from now there will be no Irish left,there will be terrible problems
    because of this in years to come


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