Amnesty scheme for undocumented migrants in Ireland

In fairness, neither did I - the missus refused to fill it in n I wasn't spending a couple of hours on it, so it got binned!

Like if there's 100k people apply will they all be accepted? AFAIK they will be eligible for social welfare once they avail of the amnesty, family repatriation too- surely now they are legit? Was any figure bandied about if it was limited to 17k as to the cost, or is that irrelevant?

Seen a few articles recently about mcentee as future fg leader with this scheme for illegals and amnesty for direct provision residents as signs of her stateliness. She's outdoing coveney!

Yep

I very much doubt the yanks will pay any heed whatsoever to what we do. I watched a programme years ago about Brits moving to America legally n the hoops they had to jump through was unreal- there was almost zero chance that they were gonna be an economic liability to uncle Sam.

Never going to happen ,if America does it for undocumented Irish they have to do it for everyone elses undocumented .

This is a mess of a process pushed for by NGOs and failed asylum seekers.

Why bother going to the bother of getting a visa etc and being here legally, less rights than those who bypass.

Gript did reporting on this recently. Essentially, the figure is completely made up. It's not from the DOJ - it's from the Migrants Rights Centre Ireland, an organisation which can charitably be described as most definitely having skin in the game, and most especially by underselling the numbers involved (which are uncapped). MRCI have failed to produce any documentation supporting their 'study' from whence the figures emanate - in fact IIRC they were unable to even name the study or those who carried out out on their behalf. Given that the very same MRCI have previously given much higher estimates for illegals (from memory, 26000 excluding children), I think describing the 17k figure as "made up" is entirely appropriate.

I've said it before 60,000 + through direct provision ,11,000 deportation orders issued by the courts in this country , deportations over the last 30 years,

1,400

Undocumented immigrants in Ireland 17,000 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Well dont be moany cnuts when you find that there aren't services in your locality because of lazy sods who couldn't be arsed to do something that takes 10-15 mins, not HOURS, to do.

I'm disgusted at this. Illegals who we have no idea about, who could potentially be murderers and rapists etc for all we know, naturalized?

The Department of Justice nor the Minister have been able to provide any data as they have no official estimates on the actual number of illegals in the state. McEntee hasn't a clue of the number of people she’s offering amnesty to!! Gript made multiple attempts to confirm the "17,000" number (Freedom of Information requests) despite DOJ being statutorily bound they heard nothing!!

She was on RTE This morning and went unchallenged. No questions asked!! There's been nothing in the media showing any sort of concern or interest in this part from the effective Party Members. It is allowed to be waved on by without issue.

She says that this will “improve the lives of thousands of people across the country.”.. but it won't for the people of Ireland, those who have been born and raised here, who contributed all their lives and paid their way. It will be a negative addition and a strain to the state and everything that is needed to run it

Like my friends and people I work with, people who are in the process & who've gone through the legal path to Irish citizenship are furious. If these well-educated and highly skilled individuals were to leave Ireland, I wouldn't blame them. Their contribution to Irish society would be missed.

Anybody who came here or remained here illegally should not be rewarded with such an honor as having Irish citizenship. And Of course, I don't expect those who have connections to trafficking and crime to come forward.

Bulling!!!

They view the Irish people with nothing but contempt

Huh?

There is 10 million plus undocumented in the states.

The Americans being Americans set up a system decades ago so that the undocumented could pay taxes.

I know undocumented Irish who setup and prospered with pretty large construction companies in New York and Boston.

If they got rid of all the undocumented in the morning they would starve to death.

Of course explaining that to your average Trump supporter would just result in loud slogans.

Trump is well aware of it though, he made quite a bit of money off the backs of them.

Indeed. Since when did a student visa become a path to citizenship? In the real world, that person ought to have his visa revoked and be deported. In McEntee LaLa land, he's of good character and entitled to a passport right away.

This simply beggars belief.