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

So was I, up to about 30% - then it went 'Rate the difficulties 1-6 that migrants experience in...'

So in migrant group 1, the difficulties are xxx, and in migrant group 2, the difficulties are yyy - At that point I bailed out

Joe is either about to head up Mensa, or he just has the one oar in the water

I work with people from Nigeria to China. Poland to Kerry.

I don't care where anyone is from in this country as long as they come here legally,work and don't break the law.

If you come from a safe country or "lose" your documents I automatically think you are pulling a fast one and are an economic migrant or have something to hide.

If you commit a violent crime whilst in an asylum centre you should have your asylum application rejected. We have enough of our own criminals.

I'd love to see the figures of people who are turned down for asylum, appeal and then get accepted.

It feels to me like the whole world knows we are a soft touch.

I am sick of the right and left shouting at each other.

Where are the reasonable people within our elected representatives?

People from warzones we should be looking after. Chancers should be kicked out. (I'd love to kick out the Irish chancers too)

Everyone should complete this. It isn’t entirely relevant but it is a chance to have your voice heard.

Sounds like a great idea, guarantee these 155 IPAs will be all single males in their twenties, being planted in the back end of nowhere with nothing to do.

"A few weeks back, I met with concerned residents in Dromohair when the Department wrote informing them that 155 IP [international protection] applicants would arrive in their village," she said.

"I contacted the department asking for support for a village that has no community centre, whose national school has an emergency application in for two additional classrooms, where they are fundraising for decent surface for their pitch, and where their medical centre is already chock-a-block full."

People travelling to set up illegal road blocks and stir fear amongst the local community. We are already seeing it around the country. Be it East Wall, Fermoy, Dromahair or Dublin City Centre the same small group are spreading their bile and misinformation and causing trouble for locals.

This is all very sustainable - a load of scumbags kicked off in Dublin so nobody question any of this

A meeting of Manorhamilton Municipal District heard that councillors had received an email from he Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) confirming that beds were being provided for people seeking refugee status in Ireland - 124 for families and 31 beds for single men.

https://www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/home/1354560/call-to-delay-arrival-of-155-refugees-in-dromahair.html

Your comment re planning permission is untrue.They are accommodated in Hotels ,Hostels,B&Bs etc all over Ireland without any extra planning permission required.

The 950-1000 going to rural Wicklow are all going into to be built cabins.

Not to mention change of use in the case of Electric Picnic's tents.

Part of the problem though is that, if Boards were representative of the population, then absolutely nobody is far right, absolutely nobody is racist, absolutely nobody is xenophobic and absolutely nobody is ignorant. We acknowledge that all these things do exist in our society, but according to Boards it's next to impossible to find anyone who actually harbours any such opinions and those constantly and obsessively musing over immigration and the behaviour of immigrants are always and exclusively simply concerned citizens.

When people find themselves saying "how dare you call me [one of those things], I'm certainly not!" ... I think to myself, well, maybe you actually are. Or maybe you (not you directly) harbour certain components of those views and haven't really critically thought about whether they are based on far rightism or any other ism or phobia — but apparently nobody does, it's all sincere concern 24/7.

I mean, Leo Varadkar is publicly stating that Ireland is at a point where its ability to host refugees is now at its capacity limit for hosting refugees. He doesn't get called far right or racist or xenophobic — why? Why is it only the people who seem to obsess over the race, culture, religion, nationality etc of refugees who get called all the labels? Is it beyond the realms of the imagination that sometimes they are actually simply guilty of the isms/phobias?

Shinner on Clare Byrne earlier from Leitrim and no change was the mantra.people that think the shinners in government next time are going to stop this nonsense are going to be in for a rude awakening

When you consider that 60% of those arriving are destroying their documentation (why do this if you're sincere?), that equates to roughly 93 bogus AS being dumped into this village with no services to accommodate such an increase in numbers.

You don't have to look far and wide to see the trouble that's brewing within these IPA centres elsewhere, or the hassle local residents are experiencing as a result of accommodating said AS.

The government are also displaying bad faith in these situations. They have no long term plan and Killarney has shown that if you give this government an inch, they'll take a mile.