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

That's just one factor though.

A serious look at something like this would also consider demographic overrepresentations, bias in reporting, and how these categories are defined.

I've had a quick look at Finland's definition of sexual offences and it does seem to include harassment and offences where no physical contact took place.

https://oikeusministerio.fi/en/sexualoffenceslaw

I'm not for a minute defending catcalling or verbal harassment, I find it abhorrent but I do think it's quite likely that people from different cultural backgrounds might be overrepresented.

I don't think it unreasonable that people in a foreign country might not understand a train payment system. Especially if they don't speak the language.

I reckon I'm guilty as charged of this particular type of 'fraud' on more than one occasion.

This also happened

Norway Offers Migrants a Lesson in How to Treat Women - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

But sure we are only getting all the good ones anyway, scamming our joke of an asylum process and then being allowed to stay because we can't be bothered dealing with anything.

I haven't seen non-contact harassment referred to as 'sexual assault' other than by yourself and that other poster.

Nobody's being imported here.

And I see no evidence whatsoever that changes in asylum policy would positively impact crime rates. I would actually suspect that moving towards a 'harder' approach, which might see people living undocumented or in greater poverty, would in fact lead to increases in crime.

I thought, according to you, that part of the attraction of here is that it’s an English speaking country and ‘the second highest GDP in the world’ to increase their chances of getting a job but now you’re suggesting that some can’t speak basic English

If the alternative is pushing people towards living undocumented or in greater poverty, where they might commit more serious crimes, I think it's the best option.

I think this kind of verbal harassment, which I don't think we should tolerate at all, is necessarily even a criminal offence in Ireland.

As many of the anti-immigration 'activists' are aware we're quite lax here on a lot of appalling behavior here. A lot of behaviors only meet our criminal definitions if repeated between individuals. This includes sexual remarks but also recording people coming and going to work, making vague suggestions as to knowing where people live, showing up outside their houses with balaclavas etc.

I don't think we should tolerate any of it to be honest.

I think it's in all of our interests that people coming here are treated with respect, fairness and dignity.

I think it's especially true that people who will be living here in the longer term are given every fair chance to live a happy and productive life. Nobody should be striving for a 'two-tier' society.

As for 'safe' countries, there's really no such thing

That says it all.

So we should make allowances for the behaviour of those from other cultural backgrounds. That verbal sexual harassment is .. …..not even a criminal offence. The Irish are some of the worst types of people at home & abroad and there should be no allowances made for their cultural background. I’m not feeling much love on here for The Irish.

The country is unsettled and villages throughout Ireland have these undocumented migrants hanging around the streets all day causing locals stress.

Dublin city is a calamity

That's quite simply untrue.

More weak attempts to try portray IPAs as some sort of deviant group.

Didnt they turn the EP site into a refugee site when it was over last year?