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Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Read OP for mod warnings before posting*

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭Juran


    Mod Edit: Warned for ignoring mod instructions in OP

    Post edited by Necro on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭tom23


    Sleep out on Wednesday for support of Austism services. A small amount of that money would go along with away. At this stage i’d nearly start an NGO in aid of them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Butson




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,198 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Migrants are found at Irish ports because we are a soft mark country.

    Just say nothing and have no documents that can identify them or their country of origin and there is zero chance of being deported.

    Oh and let's not forget we have political parties like Labour, the Soc Dems and PBP who don't want to see anyone removed from here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭jackboy


    If the 2 Billion was not spent on IPAS it still would not be spent on other causes mentioned here. Its not charity, its transfer of tax payers money to wealthy individuals with political connections.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,131 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    These immigrants are poor and at the same time rich.

    These benefits are generous but not when you are Irish, only if you are not Irish living in Ireland are they generous.

    Oh yeah bad faith arguing.

    Indubitably!

    Most self proclaimed free speech absolutists are giant big whiny snowflakes!



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,557 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Again, ridiculous blaming the left wing parties when they haven’t been in power.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,198 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    I never said they were in power, I'm pointing out their views and policies on immigration.

    Do you as a leftist agree with them?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,990 ✭✭✭✭Ha Long Bay


    You quoted a post which included an article linked which completely goes against your narrative.

    "Awful pity the media didn’t take the same interest in his heroics as the brazilian"

    1.jpg

    2.jpg

    Am I missing something?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 666 ✭✭✭engineerws


    The date (6 days after the attack) and the section (not front page). The GoFundMe was started on the 24 of November (day after attack).

    https://www.gofundme.com/f/buy-caio-benicio-a-pint

    My feeling is a big part of the money given was to also signal we're not racist (which is good), just the guy who did the saving was overlooked. I mean all this is in the public domain and probably off topic here so hopefully that is all the questions answered.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,990 ✭✭✭✭Ha Long Bay


    My post questioned

    "Awful pity the media didn’t take the same interest in his heroics as the brazilian"

    I replied showing that was false providing links etc.

    I will leave it at that as this thread is a train wreck as demonstrated with whatabout replies like this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭rgossip30


    You don't ever see that many on trucks at ports the same as the scenario you posted without proof .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭rgossip30


    The fact is he publicly said it and it's true .



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,557 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    I’m sorry, but I have no idea what you’re saying. There are words or punctuation missing.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,557 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Why do their views matter when they have no material impact on the situation? FFG have caused the problems, point your anger at them.

    I’m not a “leftist”, because it’s a designation so arbitrary it’s meaningless. I’ve stated my opinion openly and repeatedly on this thread, why don’t you argue with what I’ve said and not some sort of broad “leftist” position, I may or may not hold. Labour, the Soc Dems and PBP probably disagree as much as they agree.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭tom23


    That’s one article. He didn’t get near the same coverage as Caio. Same applies to the young french chef. That’s all stating. now as pointed out it’s going of topic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭Will0483


    Thats the problem in a nutshell. Internet cranks are free to spew the most outrageous left-wing rubbish without any limit. They can call anyone that disagrees with them racists and demand that they be cancelled and fired from their jobs.

    This pushes nearly everyone into silence but all the time they are getting angrier and angrier about not been able to discuss the elephant in the room and paying through the nose for these same NGO's that chill all public debate.

    It's time to have an evidence based discussion on the benefits and costs of our current Asylum policy. I would happily pay taxes to fund research on this topic. Take all left/right out of the debate just produce verifiable evidence and facts that will be irrefutable. We can look towards the UK also to see what has gone so wrong over there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭Will0483


    Being poor is irrelevant for Asylum purposes. Billions of people are poor in dysfunctional countries but have no right to claim asylum.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Did the people who stopped the attacker ever appear on RTE or Virgin? There are always guests like these on BBC and ITV in the mornings.

    Did they get any sort of official award or recognition? They certainly deserve something.

    Tackling a homicidal knife wielding maniac is going above and beyond the call of duty.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,557 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    I agree. Being poor isn’t a reason to grant asylum. But it’s a reason so many people put their lives at risk to do it.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 6,926 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Aris


    Mod note:

    @Zico !

    I deleted your last 2 posts. You have been repeatedly warned about posting generic one liners with nothing to back them up. This is a discussion forum, please consider this in your future participation.

    Any questions pm me, do not respond to this post on thread.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,131 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    Name one NGO that you think it would be fair to say "that chill all public debate"

    And we can discuss in the context of that specific example what "chill all public debate" means?

    Otherwise I will assume this is just the usual conspiracy theory waffle.

    Most self proclaimed free speech absolutists are giant big whiny snowflakes!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭ArthurDayne


    Internet cranks of any hue or political persuasion are able to use the Internet as a platform.

    I see a lot of the anti-migration stuff on Twitter, YouTube, elsewhere. It's often people posting the identities of business people whose premises are used as IPA accommodation and labelling them traitors and calling for boycotts, or it's guys putting their phone cameras up in the faces of asylum seekers to vilify them in some way and share their face across the internet, or its any other brand of dramatic accusations about people being enemies of the Irish people who want to replace us all, bla bla bla. If these people were in critical mass of number, they'd be casting people out of jobs and all sorts in no time.

    And like, what evidence based policy do you want? What evidence are you looking for? I mean, people routinely ignore the base evidential fact that all the countries that have apparently been destroyed by migration continue to be the most open, tolerant, liberal, free, stable and prosperous countries in the world. We are constantly told how terrible migration has been for Western Europe when all evidence and metrics still points to Western Europe being within a small group of territories in the word that perform broadly well on the metrics I've mentioned above — while people seem to struggle to name the apparent monocultural Utopias out there that offer a far better life than the supposedly migrant-infested hellscapes in the West.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭rgossip30


    Does anyone posting disagree with legal immigration it's irregular migration and lack of control.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,131 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    Do you want me to begin quoting posts from page 1 of the thread that have indicated issues with immigration and not specified whether its illegal only.

    Or do you want me to jump to page 2 of the thread for the first post that has an issue with legal immigration?

    Most self proclaimed free speech absolutists are giant big whiny snowflakes!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭Marcos


    Well first of all you have to look at who signed us into this without giving the electorate a chance to have a say on it, Helen McEntee. Then look at her less than stellar handling of immigration in this country, also the fact that she seems to be a creature controlled by immigration NGOs. Nothing they wanted was too much trouble for her to try and introduce.

    We are going to be on the hook for taking an immeasurable number of people claiming to be refugees, or if we don't then we will be forced to pay €20,000 per individual per year that we refuse to take. All this when, we have an ever growing housing crisis, lack of infrastructure both social and physical, and are already paying at least €2 billion a year warehousing the ones we have already, 80% of which the government acknowledge are fake. While the government are **** themselves as the hit from Trumps tariffs knocks at least €18 billion out of the economy. Add the net zero extra costs taxes that the government will be pushing. They have already mooted that we will be fined up to €20 billion by the EU commission.

    That's before any "cultural differences" are taken into account, you know little things like some new to the parish have to be taught that you can't rape women. Both Norway and Finland had to give classes to immigrants on how to interact with women after a series of rapes by immigrants in those countries.

    IMO, this isn't a migration pact, it's a national suicide pact.

    When most of us say "social justice" we mean equality under the law opposition to prejudice, discrimination and equal opportunities for all. When Social Justice Activists say "social justice" they mean an emphasis on group identity over the rights of the individual, a rejection of social liberalism, and the assumption that unequal outcomes are always evidence of structural inequalities.

    Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,069 ✭✭✭prunudo


    The current level of legal migration is unsustainable, and it's putting huge pressure on resources and services.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭briangriffin


    So even if the person claiming asylum is aware that they are not meeting the criteria for asylum and is costing the taxpayer in the 18 months its taking to run through all appeals tens of thousands that's just ok, that's just our legal obligations we should not fret over it. Even if that cost is over 1.6 billion euros.

    You think that the 85% are not fleeing war or persecution you think they are fleeing poverty. So they are not being truthful about the war and persecution but are being truthful about fleeing poverty. Again you cannot accommodate everyone who is fleeing poverty that would be around 2 billion people in the world- fleeing poverty is not a grounds for seeking asylum in Ireland or anywhere in Europe for good reason given the numbers. It would destabilize the entire continent of Europe if that was a ground for seeking asylum. So you are saying there is no responsibility on the applicant to apply in good faith, there is no personal responsibility, everyone on planet Earth has a legal and moral right to apply for asylum and should be allowed to apply regardless of their motives, whether they are economic migrants or not?

    It’s the eternally optimistic notion from the left that everyone from every country on the planet espouses the exact same virtuous values of kindness and honesty they themselves espouse that has us in the mess we are in today. That is absolutely an ideological view that is pushed by the many many NGOS who have protested over the past few years and influenced government decisions on the many pull factors I've referenced many times on this thread. The denial then of any impact on homelessness on housing on hotels on communities on Tourism the absolute gaslighting of the people who said no we don't want our community to be changed to lose hotels to lose tourism and yes to lose that sense of security that every single person with any modicum of sense would have if you moved in tens or hundreds of men from many different countries with many different values, not all cultures are as tolerant and progressive as ours. Everyone is referred to as racist or far right to the point now where the words are meaningless.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,198 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    O Callaghan says a significant number of AS are making their way here through Northern Ireland.

    Yeah Jim, tell us something we don't already know !



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭briangriffin


    Not factually correct though, every radio station and newspaper spoke about Caio very few mentioned Warren/French Chef I understand the reasons why given the climate at the time but there's no denying the huge push on the narrative.

    The victim's gofund me received €270K

    and the hero receives €370K…..



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