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

this was done in New York - the card had a hefty enough balance on it.

Should have been a thing for the get go….you cannot be an asylum seeker 'fleeing persecution' and get to shop around for the best deal you can get

Shows it up for what it is, 99% are economic migrants and it appears to be common knowledge among the policy makers who let it happen

Seems to be serious issues where even those granted asylum appear to be given the boot into homelessness.

Could be a good time for a refresher on one of the best articles written on this utter shambles in a long time. There isn't a so-called journalist in the Irish msm that would be allowed to write anything close to that - Expect John Mooney's articles to be banned by FG and a bill rushed through the Dail under new 'Hurty FG articles' legislation

"No one knows what Roderic O’Gorman, the integration minister, was thinking when he began tweeting about his plans to reform the immigration system in early 2021 but staff [the usual suspects] at the International Protection Office (IPO) were aghast."

https://archive.is/EfdEL

All signed off at cabinet level just to retain power for a few more years - irrespective of the damage to, and the financial cost to the country that this would invariably bring - It's the closest thing to treason I've ever seen

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/08/30/record-number-of-asylum-seekers-awaiting-accommodation/

It’s just beyond ridiculous that we’re still carrying on as if we can take limitless number of people, will we ever get real? Something’s gotta give

Wheres your (checkbook), i mean humanity man, 😭 have you got no more funds I mean "care" to give. The fun really begins when the money tree dies. Just remember WHO was in favor of all this. Retired at taxpayers expense or new job prolly related to such.

Maybe at that stage the hate speech law will have censored it all. Cause thats the law. This forum will be banned by then 🤣

The people leading this will move on to their beloved EU jobs and not bothered about their own Irish people. I guarantee you that.

They are setup for life.

Problem is there is no other party to vote for that will stop importing illegal people.

"under the program, a four-person family with children under five can receive up to $350 per week, or about $18,200 a year, according to published news reports" they're still getting free accommodation on top of that.

https://council.nyc.gov/joseph-borelli/2024/07/03/nyc-to-spend-millions-on-new-round-of-pre-paid-debit-cards-for-migrants/

The tweets were clearly aimed at people already living in Direct Provision in Ireland. The idea that asylum seekers started coming to Ireland in 2023 from countries thousands of miles away on the back of some tweets from a little known cabinet minister two years earlier is clearly nonsense.

How come the anti-immigration / tricolour crowd didn't even notice these tweets in February 2021? The fact that they were busy rioting in summer 2021 in Dublin and attacking the Gardai may have been a factor - they hadn't even moved on from their Covid and lockdown conspiracies at that point.

African lads beat on Irish lads then the inevitable retaliation...our own ethnically protected people have been doing the same for decades

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/germany-deportations-afghanistan-risks-government-becoming-accomplice-taliban-1

Amnesty not happy.

They have ramped up deportations in the last few years, it's not uncommon for them to carry out raids on fluctlings heims as they call them and take away individuals for deportation, an action which wouldn't fly here.. It all helps in funneling them towards the UK and here with scandanavian countries also tightening up while our government continues to be shamefully reactive instead of proactive Allways behind the curve to the absolute detriment of the citizens

The AFD may have won in that region but it'll be different in "west" Germany although I still expect them to grow. By the time next year's national election rolls around they could grow further.

Obviously the government has begun deportations because they don't want to hemorrhage support to the right. In the sense of illegal immigration and refugees the AFD will be good for Europe but in other aspects I can't discuss in this thread they'll be bad.

- they [The Times] just throw out the proposition that the tweets were posted and asylum claims rose 12-18 months later 

Of all papers, I really don't think The Times are prone to 'throwing out propositions' - You don't think that The Times would do the due diligence required and have trusted sources that have consistently been proved accurate and reliable over the years before publishing an article?

They're not a mickey mouse university student publication Straz, like you're implying

'No one knows what Roderic O’Gorman, the integration minister, was thinking when he began tweeting about his plans to reform the immigration system in early 2021 but staff at the International Protection Office (IPO) were aghast.'

Why were the staff aghast?

'They [the IPO staff] were concerned about O’Gorman’s decision to translate his plans into multiple languages including the Georgian language, offering to provide asylum seekers with their “own-door” accommodation and “wrap-around supports, healthcare and education” on social media without having the infrastructure or finance to support it.'

Why were the staff at the IPO concerned Straz? - Or are you saying that The Times are lying and if that is the case, have you contacted them about this and what did they say?

'A year after the O’Gorman tweets and McEntee’s amnesty announcement, the numbers jumped to 13,651 in 2022.'

Cause and effect I'd call it -

I have to hand it to ya though - If mental gymnastics were an Olympic sport, you'd be in an open-topped bus going down O'Connell Street