Why are the government intent on forcing through the EU Migration Pact?

Immigration is higher in Spain (18% of the population foreign-born) than in Germany (17.3% of the population foreign-born).

Mmm. And is there any evidence that, when we control for other socioeconomic factors that influence crime rates, the differently-constituted Spanish migrant population has a lower crime rate than the German migrant population. Or are we just projecting this on the back of racist assumptions?

But you're still just projecting different crime rates based on generalised assumptions you are making about these groups. Where's the actual data on this?

Going back to Kroos's original point — are you safer in Germany or Spain? The answer is, unambiguously, Spain — Spanish crime rates are lower overall (though no doubt if you search you can find particular crimes where German rates are lower). But there is no basis for attributing this to immigration in general, since Spain actually has (relatively speaking) a higher immigrant population than Germany. Is it, then, because immigrants to Germany are more prone to criminal behaviour than immigrants to Spain, because of the particular societies from which they come or the particular circumstances they have left? So far, we're offered precisely zero evidence that this is the case; the idea seems to emerge from the notion that the higher crime rates in Germany simply must be a product of immigration, and this is just a rationalisation to try to support that.

To throw another bit in the pot, there is also the question of whether reported crime figures are based in reality in either jurisdiction. I suspect since arriving in Spain that Toni Kroos has only experienced what plutocratic footballers experience, ie an insulated life. He grew up in various port cities in Far Eastern Germany, close to the Polish border. His early years would have been the upheaval of reunification, changing circumstances for Osties before he lived to Bayern Munich in his late teens.

His views as regards comparators are formed by very different class-based experiences, growing up in a poor area the being wealthy in world class cities.

Yeah they are really looking out for our interests all right letting in just about anyone that shows up whether they have a passport or not.

And they know once they get a foot in the door there is zero chance of getting deported.

We a a soft mark country.

all anecdotal!

For the people criticizing Kroos remarks, would you care to comment on this please

The article you link discusses that very question. The pact includes measures to streamline and expedite the intra-EU returns process, and this is one of its key attractions, so far as the Irish government is concerned.

Is this not more or less the same arrangement that already exists under the Dublin Agreement? Which as a poster pointed out above: 2,758 requests were made by Ireland to other EU countries to take responsibility for an asylum claim over the last 4yrs but returned only 31.
I see no reason that the new arrangement won't work the same as the old one. If you think otherwise, your just a Pollyanna.
The reality is that signing this deal was a stupid idea. It exists only to allow France and Germany to offload the product of their poor decisions, every 'tough measure' to limit arrivals or expedite the removal of failed asylum seekers will continue to fail by design and be hobbled by bodies like the ECHR. The chancers will still chance their arm, there will be no reduction of illegal entrants, we'll just be agreeing to take on average another 30,000 migrants on top of that and sure if we get another war in the Middle East (unlikely I know!) and another couple of million migrants rock up on the boarders of the EU, we'll be obliged to take a hell of a lot more than that annually.

So long Ireland, it was nice knowing you!

Considering the only benefit was a bit of funding why not use the opt out like Denmark did ? Now it is binding the opt out has gone.