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

There are some winners and just one loser in this phenomenon.

The right win by getting to keep wages down.

The left win by getting to feel warm, fuzzy and virtuous (also long term they get new voters).

The AS win by trading a third world country for one of the richest in the world on a GDP per capita basis.

The only loser is society at large.

Well it proves how well RTE do their research and how he is fooling the IPO .I assume one can now move on !!

I've said for a long time, the current definitions of left and right that the media have drawn up around immigration are skewed. The so called left, the pro immigration side, cheer on capitalism, happy to bring in cheap labour and make immigration landlords into multi millionaires.

The so called far right, want to put locals first, have a just society where people who are on housing lists for years, can avail of housing and services and not be bunny hopped by those in the country a wet week.

Ultimately it's all by design though, it's suits the government to have society divided. So called goodies and badies, a group to point the finger at and sneer. It distracts from their failings. The one thing any government fears the most, is the electorate coming together. Hopefully neutrality will be that turning point.

So the majority are not genuine asylum seekers. It's one big scam.

There's no evidence to back this up apparently, everybody is entitled to an attempted scam. It's far right to suggest otherwise. You should be happy to let thousands of people come here and live off the state for life.

Not sure how it's suddenly not far right now that it's the government saying this - it has been far right, racist lies for the last few years to suggest this according to media and our politicians themselves.

AFAIK that was the first scheme of it's kind and the amount of undocumented migrants was over estimated.

The scheme was only open to those who did not have a current permission to reside in the State and would enable eligible applicants to remain and reside in the State and to regularise their residency status. In total, 

6,548 applications were submitted

 in respect of 8,311 people under the scheme

Not really marrying up with the narrative that all people who have been issued deportation orders stay in the state anyway.

Another myth blown wide open.

Who said all people stay?

You did.

They come and make their claim, it’s turned down and they are deported or leave. It alls happens too slowly.

Because they hang around long enough for amnesty like this

Clearly a large number do

Well if it is clear, where is your evidence for it?

You must be basing your claim on something tangible?

What is it?

So they are left wing?

Which by your definition makes them pro capitalist and pro immigration.

 The so called left, the pro immigration side, cheer on capitalism, happy to bring in cheap labour and make immigration landlords into multi millionaires.

The vast majority of Ireland would self level as centrist, you have the racist nutters and Putin apologists on either side of a wide spectrum, occasionally they are so far gone they meet, fortunately these are tiny in their numbers and should be treated with the ridicule they deserve.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41587168.html

Least surprising report ever. The billions that we are spending on the asylum industrial complex is not enough. The beast requires more money and will do so indefinitely.