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

The Government have places for them to go where they provide all this plus more but they keep leaving and surely at some stage you would think that they stop all payments and everyone who is coming here will be put into places and fed/watered etc and if you decode to leave then your on your own

Was listening to a bit on Morning Ireland today, they were chatting to a refugee who came to Ireland.

He described how he first when to Turkey, then Bulgaria, then Hungary then Switzerland, then France, then the UK, then Ireland.

Didn't hear 100% of the interview, but at no point did the rte interviewer ask him why he passed through so many safe countries? Its this lack of interrogation and tough questions that are feeding the anti immigration brigade.

The fact that the EU is content to designate multiple countries as ‘safe’ that the Government have refused to, for example, Nigeria, certainly demonstrates the established level of Government resistance to policies that would reduce asylum. The UK has listed Nigeria as a ‘safe’ country for male asylum seekers for years.

I think you are correct here.

Although there is a balancing act to play because as the number of new IPAs increases over summer, the backlog of unprocessed/unhoused applicants will grow and grow.

Meaning each month that goes by will see more tents on the streets and more discontent amongst the electorate.

The govt could appease the electorate to a point, if they at least announced the locations or a solid plan to accommodate and process the IPAs, ahead of the election.

I think saying nothing whilst the problem builds, and it will build, would result in more dissatisfaction from the electorate vs laying out a strutured plan with timelines.

The plan may annoy the locals that are impacted, but will appease the mass electorate, who are not impacted by the new camps.

Denmark is breaking the law.

Also not policies we could consider here, with our economy so dependent on EU policies being lenient on our approach to FDI.

https://migrant-integration.ec.europa.eu/news/denmark-european-court-human-rights-says-three-year-rule-violates-refugees-right-family-life_en

Exactly. And last week saw 610 new arrivals.

Thats an annual rate of over 30k if it continued, so we need to be planning for those kind of numbers.

The govt have already said their processing team can only sustain 14k applications annually.

Honestly, would you ever give over on Ireland not being able to defend itself from IPA's due to "dependency on the EU" angle, you clearly have no idea on whether this is the case.

Simply put, it's yet another high-level half baked thought plucked from the sky to suit your narrative. Ireland's position in the EU would be just fine regardless of enacting policies that we succeeded in preserving a choice for, have you any evidence to indicate otherwise? Or is it yet another lie from you?

Are we fine with the alternative of wasting billions of the IPA industry? Are our EU blackmailers (as you would infer) jumping at the chance to save us from the UK/Rwanda fallout?

EDIT: The link reads like Denmark are doing the best to protect their ethnic population, believing "no law should be above Danish law", whilst the virtue signalling industry take them to court. For me the bottom line from the article; "This has led to some returning home to be reunited". Fair play Denmark for having some guts.

I notice all the pitched tents are the same, so obviously these IPAs are being given a tent by some NGO or government agency?

Perhaps if they weren't handed a tent, but instead told to go to X, where they will be processed and taken by bus to Y, it would save the hassle of the tents being erected in town, the gardai having to clear them all, and tents being binned, and the men being bussed later?

Well then why don't they stop taking them in if they know they cant provide them with places to go. Its madness at this rate

Tell ya one thing. These canal tent folk brought the good weather with them!

A misplaced idea that individuals are personally generous if they approve of their country accepting any amount of people is largely to blame.

It's like the country's immigration policies were drawn up by a group of well meaning transition year students.

Others also say:

Immigration centre next door to me, didn't see/hear anything so they're fine by me to open more.

Ah sure I don't hear any other countries complaining so why are we.

Took a walk through the Grand Canal area, saw a couple of hidden tents.. sure there's no problem there..

Goofle, Páirc Mhuire residents association in Newbridge, Co Kildare. Maybe attend one of their meetings and ask where do you sign up to take in some IPAs.

Well, the issue is being used as a bit of an election season drama in the British media — including being gleefully jumped on by the likes of GB News to soothe the feelings of damaged pride that certain sections of the Brexiteer class have felt about Paddy being seen to get one over his betters in London re Brexit (Jacob Rees Mogg appeared to have what could be described as an intellectual orgasm over the revenge porn of Dublin having not rolled over for the Brexiteers and getting the karma we deserved for our insolence — "this is glorious" to use his terms).

I tend to watch more right-leaning stuff in the news and on YouTube etc and from videos there, from the likes of GB News and Daily Mail etc, you'd think that Dublin was currently overwhelmed by endless seas of tents and that people are up in arms. In reality, life is going on around Dublin fairly as normal as the authorities figure out how to tackle an issue which is problematic but not causing the levels of disruption and sheer horror being made out in some reports.