Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Mod Note Added 14/08/25*

Agree. Setting up my charter aircraft business as we speak. Then I will subcontract my deportation government contracts out to another charter company who will fly the planes.

Perhaps I just overlooked it but is this recent flight with the 35 people, a repatriation to their place of origin or are they getting deported to Nigeria due to a Government led agreement with said country, similar to the short lived Rwanda plan in the UK?

As far as I know,we can only remove illegals to countries that we have a return agreement with,obviously we have such an arrangement with Georgia and Nigeria but there are other countries that will not accept their citizens back.

Going forward we may have to apply pressure on these other countries to accept their citizens.

The journal now reporting how devastated schoolchildren were to have their classmates deported. I mean the parents could have avoided this by voluntarily leaving once their claims were unsuccessful (or never chancing their arms by claiming asylum they weren't entitled to to begin with )

Well paint me shocked 🙄

Not going to happen. They will continue with these infrequent propaganda flights and nothing more.

RTE news : Cost of deporting 35 people to Nigeria was €325k

http://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0605/1516803-immigration-removal/

Buried in the bottom of the article we see a quote from the Irish Refugee council, voicing their displeasure at the governments "near exclusive focus on deportation as the central pillar of international protection policy", which they claim this deeply concerning.

What I find deeply concerning is that of the 13,099 asylum seekers in 2024, only 3,888 were positive, meaning approx 70% were not successful. Yet the IRC want to have us believe, the approx 100 forced and approx 700 self deportations so far this year, are a near exclusive focus of the governments policy.

Edit, a deeper dive on the departments number. From department of justice on gov , forced:- 106 on charter flights, 54 on scheduled flights and 23 unescorted. Voluntary:- 694.

In 2025, so far 1,940 deportation orders have been signed but only 888 have left to date.

This is compared to a total of 1,116 in 2024.

Sorry about all the edits, wanted to get numbers correct without link dumping.

Honestly, reading some of these posts about deportations makes me wonder what is ever going to make a large number of contributors on this thread happy.

News about deportations happening and immediately it's nothing but groaning because: it's not enough, the Lefty moaners dared mention there were kids being deported, a school expressed sadness at losing pupils, the costs were mentioned, Switzerland deports more etc etc etc etc. The fact that we are quite new to all this as a country, trying to develop and ramp up an effective deportation system is routinely ignored (with wildly unfair comparisons to places like Switzerland which have long-developed processes for deportations, functioning bilateral return and transit agreements, and have simply been dealing with this for much longer than we have) — just as our relative lack of experience in these issues was ignored on here when the first spike of asylum applications occurred.

Deportations are necessary but I don't think there's any need for articles about them to be replete with joyous glee. I'm pro-choice and I can still see the tragedy and moral difficulties with abortion — I don't think it's something to necessarily be celebrated. Much in the same way, I don't see any reason why deportations need to be reported on without reference to the negative human experience involved, or the financial costs.

But sure, people probably won't be happy until the media call for street parties and outpourings of joy every time a plane full of deportees takes off.

If you are a Marxist as many of these people are, then yes, international obligations do actually outweigh national obligations.

Some awful sympathetic nonsense being discussed by the Friday panel on the Claire Byrne show about the 35 deportees, focusing in on the children.

I will edit this message later to get the quote exactly right.

Claire: "Imagine the children being deported to a country they don't know(their home country), when their friends are back in Dublin 8."

And that was just one example. That would work in the exact opposite way, people illegally coming here with kids who have no knowledge of Ireland, leaving their friends behind in their home countries. They shouldn't come here if they've no right to be here, and any hardship then experienced lies on their shoulders.