Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings - updated 11/5/24*

Well, if by his suggestion you need officers plural on every flight, and I'm assuming they want full background checks, that's gonna take time and bodies, you'd also need them at the ferry ports, that's thousands, and the border to the north, but wait can't do that......

I'm starting to think lads haven't thought this through.

On the flights like a U.S. Marshall would be OTT. Just need the means to check in and pre clear their passports before they get on the flight so destruction on arrival is next to meaningless.

Why are you try to turn this into an American issue?

Maybe you'd feel more comfortable commenting on American refugee threads.

What poll, what were the results?

Would be interesting to know if he applied for asylum in any of the 3 countries where he lived in each for over 6 months. If so, aren’t the state well within their rights to send him back to first country he applied for asylum in?

On the US comparison, the US has a cap of 125k asylum seekers for 2023.

Obama had a cap of 85k not that long ago. When the population of the US was over 320 million.

Ireland has 5 million population and admiited approx 80k last year.

Either someone is taking way too many or someone is taking in way too few...

When the Day report came out I wrote a letter to the editor about it. It wasn't published and I'm under no illusion that anyone has a right to be published but they posted zero letters to the editor about it. I can't have been the only one who wrote in that it was a mistake or even I'm sure some people would have written in favour of it but they just avoided the topic.

The protests have thrown open the Overton window on this. Which is great its just a pity that rational debate on this issue was silenced for so long. We mightn't be in the mess we're in if all debate on the issue hadn't been stiffled for so long

What was this? Seems to be gone from Facebook now.

It should still be stressed that the protests are relatively small in number. How many people have physically participated in an anti-refugee protest in Ireland in the last three weeks or so.....perhaps 5000 in total? You have a small amount of people making a huge amount of noise on social media and trying to give the impression they are some sort of 'silent majority'. Certainly immigration has come onto the radar in the last 12 months or so because of the Ukraine refugee situation and the accommodation shortages, but the idea that an anti-immigration party is going to hoover up 20% of the votes at the next general election is very hard to believe.

The article says "The man then sought help from the Irish Refugee Council Independent Law Centre, which is assisting him with his case."

Most likely, they went looking for him. But they should be careful what they wish for. With Irish sentiment now turning sour, the spectre of these welfare tourists wasting more of our money in frivolous lawsuits is only going to engender further ill-will. The Irish Refugee Council should stop prioritizing their own careers and refrain from trying to line the pockets of their buddies in legal profession. We can all see through this racket for what it is.

There are 40 million people in Afghanistan. It'd be quite the legal precedent if this guy won.

Amazing how Irish people aren't suing the state when they're forced to live with their parents til they're 40 or emigrate. I would say this guy has a neck on him like the jockey's proverbial but as a previous poster said, it's more likely that he was sought out by the treasonous grifters in some NGO.

Now that they are starting to build quiet significant modular estates for Ukrainians around the country I think it will become a more concrete issue for more people. A few more communities will start to see themselves as being in competition for housing and resources. I've seen these comments already. This will feed into politics outside of East Wall, Ballymun etc.