Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings and threadbans - updated 5/1/24*

The Celtic tiger era that bankrupted the country😂

What a great idea that turned out to be ffs

The celtic tiger era didn't bankrupt the country. It was the lack of response to the danger signs of an overheating property market that bankrupted the country

Celtic tiger was between about 1995 to 2008. If we had taken measures to cool the economy in 2006 we would have been fine

Yemen

Why doesn't he go back to his family home

In this parallel universe you'll have left ireland out of protest for having Eamon Ryan as Leader, so..... something something

Nobody yearns for the bad old days of the irish doldrums of the 80s

What we do is recognise that hundreds of thousands of irish people left Ireland seeking better lives as economic migrants during those years, and everywhere we went we made a mostly positive contribution.

Just like how the eastern Europeans made a positive contribution to Ireland in recent decades

Ireland seeded the world with a hundred million Irish diaspora.

We should be the least racist country on earth,

almost half of 18-34 year olds are going to vanish from Ireland... noice for all the fugees to fill the gap and breed us out of existence. I've a tunnel to sell ye...

It will probably get to the stage where there are zero fitness, sports facilities left in the country to be used by Irish citizens.

Feck all hotels and what is available will be a couple of hundred a night.

in addition, parts of West Africa are in a jocker with wars, famine, terrorism… example….Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, which are most affected by the crisis. Each of these countries experienced significant instability and violence during the last 2 years…Spillover effects of the crisis on neighbouring West African states such as Ivory Coast and Benin…

the world or certain parts are in an absolute jocker. This isn’t getting better anytime soon… the opposite… it’s going to get multiples worse. Africa as I’ve said is a continent awash with war, violence, corruption. Over the various African states there are 35 fully blown armed conflicts being played out currently… mass poverty, unimaginable poverty, mass corruption and violence….

Immigration, asylum is now the aspirational dream of the masses….we’ve tried to help this continent and these countries for decades… sent trillions of dollars,pounds,euros etc, sent experts, food, hell sent anything and everything….

you / we can only do so much. Letting these regions, countries, regimes die / fail ? Better then importing problems here.

we’ve done an astronomical amount but…sometimes you need to realise that throwing good money after bad, to try and fix something you didn’t fûcking break…. Makes zero sense.

The EU I’m reading has pledged 150 billion euros ($170 billion) for investment in Africa..

But the continent’s leaders were hoping for more, including vaccine patent waivers and the redirecting of billions of dollars of potential International Monetary Fund reserves from richer nations to more vulnerable ones to aid their recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

150 billion euros and the reply… “ is that it ??? “ 🤪

zero refugee policy ? Nope but a more limiting and closed door one with fast track removals.

No of course not, we should help who we can.

We should reduce the time for decisions, enforce deportation orders and actually try control our borders.

Anyone without a passport on arrival should be placed in a basic facility until identified and forcebly deported.

Anyone who commits a crime while awaiting a decision, deport them.

Anyone who commits a serious crime while not a citizen deport them.

Look at tiered benefits based on time in employment and previous wages (taxes paid), similar to the continent. Those arriving who haven't worked in s yet get very little.

Stop providing accommodation for all (I thought they were actually doing this).

Don't take lectures from economic migrants who should have been booted years ago (MASI)

Most of all noone should be waiting 6 months for a decision. Throw the money at staff not at accommodation. Turn this around quicker, and help genuine cases.

We have the tools, our politicians just don't use them.