Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Mod Note Added 02/09/25*

Theres an an article at spectator.co.uk. Ireland on a knife edge about immigration problems in Ireland .immigration has increased by 300 per cent since 2019 according to this article . obviously there are economic migrants people who come from countrys like Egypt because they can get work here and the standard of living is higher here.

I.d like to see a program on rte about immigration with people from the left and the right giving opinions is there a crisis about immigration can we make changes to the system while being in line with international law.

Not the first time RTE ended up looking foolish when they try to push their agenda without doing a bit of research first.

Remember Lucas from Brazil on Upfront with Katie Hannon who had a big hard luck story and it turned out he was having a great oul time touring around Europe before arriving here to claim asylum.

Soft mark Ireland where its easy to play the system.

Jesus, it just gets worse, so they're getting free accommodation and fed, with no bills and allowed to earn €600! That's **** sickening 🤮

Yea let’s let in hundreds of thousands of people , mostly men by the way which we don’t talk about anymore , to stand on street corners and fight with each other in hotels . Let’s destroy our once admired tourism sector , and at the same time let’s listen to the morons that say go to the White House on st Patrick’s day and spit in the face of the country that’s keeping our whole economy going .

The stupidity of the left really is unbelievable. The vast majority of Irish people are sick to the back teeth of wall to wall coverage in the media and constant statements from our leaders on

Ukraine , Gaza , Palestine , international obligations , asylum centres , Trump .

They genuinely believe they are on the world stage and some sort of example . Do the job you were elected for , sort out Irish people’s housing , health , cost of living , and stop pissing away our money on vanity projects playing dress up .

Wasters have destroyed the country and it’s little wonder with weasels of politicians that we have that the world is turning to people like Trump , Orban , AFD etc

You think the majority of people in Ireland voted for our politicians to be obsessed with Ukraine and Gaza more than our homeless and sick at home ?

Well my solution is too simplistic for the elevated left mind to comprehend

If you can’t sort out your own country , you absolutely aren’t going to have any influence on Israel the US or Russia . Grow a pair of balls and say no to anymore refugees and get rid of the ones that shouldn’t be here asap . Look after your own people .

Have some common sense . Strange to think that saying look after Irish people whose tax is paying for the services of the country instead of scammers from the Middle East is now such a crazy thing to say . But here we are

Mod Edit: Warned for uncivil posting

Because that is exactly what it is. For whatever reasons the government and enforcement agencies are not promoting reasonable immigration policies and don't enforce immigration laws.

And I made the point that there is no external agency, treaty or organization who prevents us from deporting illegals and undesirables. It's all down to us.

As for the 1 and 2 to focus on, 2 is very difficult. We need to focus on 0 Stop people at the border. People from Georgia, Albania, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India should not be allowed to enter without proper documents and visas, because once they enter they are almost impossible to remove.

That is a fair point.

Yes, the SocDems and Labour would be bonkers, with open borders, welcoming anybody and everybody.

But they are not in Govt.

The blame lies squarely with the Green Party, especially Roderic O'Gorman, FF and FG.

O’Gorman deserves to shoulder most of the blame regardless if it was an all ‘government decision’. He had the power to bring some common sense to this. he didn’t. He can’t even stand over his own white paper and invitation tweets he sent out.