Immigration to Ireland - policies, challenges, and solutions *Read OP before posting*

Don't forget far right also. Clearly anyone who questions the current policy of unrestricted immigration which is now seeing arrivals handed a sleeping bag and a few extra euro and told to sleep on the streets is a conspiracy nutter.

Depending on what exactly your concerns are, far more likely that they will tell you whatever they think you want to hear and then never give you a second thought. Politicians.

Yes that's what will happen, unless the poster can cite a candidate with a siginificantly different immigration policy to threaten to move their vote to. Otherwise the canvasser will likely conclude the poster would end up voting for whoever they were going to vote for anyway irrespective of the immigration issue, so there's no real incentive for them to push for a policy change within their party.

What's your solution so? You consistantly say we are obligated to take anyone who arrives here even though it's clear we simply don't have any where to put them. Now i'm not blaimng immigrants for the lack of housing, that's all on the government. Where most reasonable people differ from you though is when the bath is overflowing the smartest thing to do is turn off the taps first then work on fixing the blockage.

Took a look at Sweden and wanted none of it. Fair play to them, we are going to end up exactly like Sweden did as our idiots here are literally following the playbook.

I don't think Sweden is at all comparable to Ireland. They seem to have large numbers of ethnic minority ghettos and accompanying ghetto / gang related violence. There's practically nothing like that here (i.e. the Swedes appear to have made a total hames of managing things).

Doc on C4 last week on this - Now, it is C4 so it's not going in too hard but an interesting watch all the same

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Was thinking about Varadkar asking people in the Dail to try and avoid connecting crime with migration and then Aodhán O’Ríordáin today in the dail near screaming that there is no connection between immigration and crime. Data from other EU countries prove there is.

Data from Denmark show that since 2015, their share of immigrants from non-EU countries, excluding their second-generation Danish-born descendants, has risen from around 5% to 6%. Yet from 2015 to 2019 non-EU nationals have accounted for around 11% of convictions for sex offences and 34% of convictions for rape. The number of both charges and convictions for rape exploded between 2012 and 2020. Non-EU nationals in 2020 were responsible for 1 in 4 of the 987 rape convictions, over twice the number of charges from 2012. More than half of the inmates in the prisons and detention centers are immigrants, descendants of foreign nationals. For comparison, the Polish were the largest immigrant group in Denmark, and Syrians were the second. Yet Syrians have been convicted of rape nine times more often than Poles. The following year, foreign nationals were drastically overrepresented in the number of rape convictions. Near 25% of all rapes were committed by foreign nationals.

There's no connection......

Ahh Roderic, the man of a 1000 welcomes and promising to use tax payers money to house the world. What could go wrong?

Fool, more incompetent than McEnter and that's a challenge.

Jobstown, Tyrellstown, Balbriggan and more will be ghettoes in the years to come.

I see Sinn Fein are now starting to sound mildly reasonable on immigration in the Dail.

Tide is hopefully starting to turn now. Who knows maybe we can buck the trend here in Ireland and actually be mature enough to find a central logical.line without the need for a rise in fringe far right party.

I won't hold my breath but it's something to be positive about.

Id love to know what your point even is?

Poverty exists everywhere and on different scales, Jesus stop the presses. I'm so glad you've googled that one for me.

Ireland has been an extremely wealthy country for decades and still has large swathes of indigionously poor people.

So there's not much hope of us wiping out poverty while simultaneously importing massive additional poverty now is there?

Dragging I'd ask, what exactly is your point?