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

I didn't claim to. Keep up.

I’m not sure I see where the Refugee Council is disagreeing with me ? The term “International Protection” is used as it also covers Subsidiary Protection, which is a concept introduced in 2006 and brought into a single process with asylum applications in the 2015 International Protection Act.

Do you believe that people tell lies to get their asylum approved?

Or do you believe that 100% of people granted asylum have been totally honest?

How rigorous would you think, when even the media's poster boy asylum seeker is having a laugh

But since when does anyone in Ireland have a say over who moves into their area, or into their town or village or onto their street or in next door? A bunch of six drug dealers or armed robbers could move in next door to you tomorrow morning and there's virtually nothing you can do about it under law. I'm not sure where people are getting the idea they have a total power of veto over who lives in their community alongside them : this power of veto has never existed in the 100 years of the state.

For example, have you any say over the 200 people that live nearest to you, even if they were to include criminals or 'neighbours from hell'?

I completely agree with the idea of consulting with communities well in advance - it's only common courtesy and probably ensures that the move is more likely to succeed - but members of the community seeking to physically blockade the area and stop people from arriving is surely overstepping the mark. Try and do that with someone moving in to the house next door to you and you would probably be arrested by the Gardai.

People aren't objecting to someone / a family moving in next door though, this is 40+ men into a house which wasn't built for said purpose

Oh yes, people have every right to object — but other people also have every right to point out when the objections veer from rational, grounded concerns about the effects of migration into generalised fearmongering, typecasting and hate-baiting towards refugees. Nobody is saying that the conditions are ideal, nobody is saying that the challenges and risks should be overlooked — but it’s the tendency of certain people to bend over backwards to vilify refugees at every turn and to incessantly seek every example that can possibly be found of refugee doing some bad thing somewhere which turns away the reasonable people who might otherwise agree on the problems.

That’s before you even start to engage in the argument that it’s supremely self-defeating to be scared of migrants not integrating or sitting around doing nothing when one is also engaged in the business of protesting their mere presence and living in a constant state of being convinced that they are just horny, bored males who decided to leave their lives and homeland behind to get sex and wreck the place.

Yes, be concerned about your neighbourhood by all means, point out the problems with the way and manner in which refugees are distributed across the country, but protesting against and vilifying these people themselves is self-defeating.