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

I was wondering about the clearout and then dumping of the tents. They have done this a few times now, I presume it would be the guards that chase people out of the tents, but I have never seen any footage or pictures of it in the media, have there been any?

Please feel free to post any lies from my posts

Absolutely. It's the only way meaningful pressure will come on government to do something other than moving the deck chairs before the election. Even though pretty much any of us with a somewhat pragmatic head know they'll do nothing meaningful. At least it builds pressure in areas where traditionally this wasn't an issue. Helps to bring the entire country closer together in finally realising maybe this all isn't a great idea. From rural/working class right to the upper middle class.

The out of sight out of mind approach has us where we are now.

Since 2016 "Syrian" refugees were dumped all around rural Ireland, the only prerequisite was that these rural areas needed to have plenty of cheap unwanted houses and a few underperforming hotels. Services etc. weren't a priority at all just as long as there was a place to put the refugees that was enough.

A few well connected people did very well out of the whole arrangement. Not the locals though. When you see developer families from cork who had most of the projects left on their books during the recession taken into Nama suddenly finding some loose change to buy a hotel in Roscommon you know something is up.

Well connected people have been coining it in for going on 10 years now. Even now I'd say they have to pinch themselves every so often when they look at the books because as the years have gone on the contracts have gotten more and more lucrative to the point that they must be physically unable to look at their accounts without laughing/gasping with joy.

It's a shame the massive Syrian refugee thread on here was completely nuked there were some excellent posts on it which nailed the situation then and are even more relevant today.

Have to admit. I did get a smirk out of the irony of the picture taken of the tents on Wellington Road yesterday a per the Indo article:

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/asylum-seekers-move-tents-to-ballsbridge-after-canal-space-gets-fenced-off/a1771497291.html

Getting exactly what they/she asked for!

Although the picture seems to have been taken from a different angle for this morning's report:

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/asylum-seekers-set-up-camp-in-ballsbridge-as-areas-along-grand-canal-fenced-off-at-a-cost-of-36000/a911478011.html

Agree wholeheartedly. The ones up in arms about this are the ones who have been telling us in rural small towns that we're racist idiotic yokels who have been lied to by far right media outlets we've never heard of not to mind read or watched.

Let them reap what they sowed. Dublin will become like Lagos and the ones in the rural hotels along with their reunited "families" will mostly eventually head off there.

I never watch RTE anymore . I thought they were a disgrace during Covid with the constant fear mongering.

Happened to be in a hotel last night and while trying to connect the tv to Netflix, the RTE news came on with the refugee story.

Fcuk me, is this how some people get their news? It was like news for 6 year olds.

The tone was condescending and patronising. I actually started laughing at one stage. This from an organisation that wouldn’t be able to organise a piss up in a brewery.

We have a lot of issues in this country but the state broadcaster must be near the top of the list.

don’t listen to RTE it’s in the pocket of the government. Can’t wait for the tents to appear on the nice greenery in Montosia. If I could wish away a semi state I’d use my three wishes on RTE to make sure. Destest that organisation.

Same here, haven't watched the news or prime time since covid. Its called Pravda RTE in this house. The odd time I see a small segment. Wtf springs to mind. VM are not much better unfortunately. All echo chambers.

Get rid of the 📺️

Some facts

In 2022, there were 13,651 applications for international protection, while 2023 saw 13,277 applications.

In 2000, Ireland received over 10,000

In 2001, just under 13,000 arrived into Ireland

2002, just under 12,000 asylum seekers came to Ireland.

I'm not seeing huge differences in these figures, but I do know there were no mass protests outside DP centers. So what has changed?

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/ireland-and-immigration-the-facts-how-many-men-women-and-children-where-are-they-coming-from-and-which-counties-are-housing-them/a1317067915.html

You do realise the ones from previous years are still here... its not as if we take in 12000 one year then they all go home at year end and free up all the resources they were using for next year numbers... heard Paul Murphy tying to make the same argument on drive time the other day re I think it was the nu.ber of Ukrainians coming falling from 70 k to 40k like the first 70 k weren't there anymore

Has to be said the anti-immigration crowd couldn't give a flying fig about the homeless though. Here's Niall Boylan in 2018 slating Irish homeless people and accusing them of being chancers and fleecing the system:

Honestly don't know what that has to do with the Simon community tbh

Yet more dodgy anti-immigration politicians...

It looks to me that rather than being a legitimate political position anti-immigration rhetoric is usually a front for other motives...

Orban/afd pro-Russian agenda... Trump authoritarian megalomania... McNamara career politician chasing votes... Truss crazy economics... Le Pen Frexit

So many examples right before our eyes and still the mob laps it up

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/afd-spionageaffaere-russland-und-china-im-fokus-neue-enthuellungen-belasten-die-partei-1714480876-a-a1c05e64-b6bc-4c6b-844e-a78a32ec4f91