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

Any guesses where the 30 voluntarily went?

a major co-ordinated operation reported in March, took place at a Belfast apartment development. Offences ranged from breaching visa conditions to illegal UK entry with no permission to work. 30 of the individuals arrested elected to leave the UK voluntarily https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0djrk7vzpo

I have a major problem with the tone and the narrative the media spin. We have a situation where the country is experiencing problems with mass migration. One of the tools to deal with people who have either broken the law or don't meet our laws, is deportation, its too slow, it needs improving, we all know this.

Yet for some reason, the media give more airtime to small parties like the SD's who try to undermine the rules of the land by going on some bleeding heart offensive. I've seen more from Gannon or Gibney, than have the government whi should be out there, front and centre telling us and the world that deportations will contuine and people are given plenty of time to leave voluntarily and forced deportations are of their own making.

As often happens in this country, the left and the media set the narrative, and then the government act accordingly, its a trick that has kept FFG in power for decades, stealing their talking points so as not to concede power. A trick they now appear to be using with the rights talking points.

So to recap, while they may not have a sniff of power, they have had more airtime than the government on this issue.

I'm not going to sit here and pretend I know how our immigration officials came up with their decision on either his case or the case of the school children that were deleted but I will say there's plenty on the right who would happily see legitimate asylum seekers out of our country to 'protect our gene pool' or some other fallacy.

The fact they could be deported and subjected to FGM or other brutal forms of torture is largely irrelevant to them

The problem is the appeals take forever given the sheer quantity arriving because we are seen as a soft touch. When an applicant is told no, they should have to leave in order to have a right to appeal. Otherwise it's a permanent no, all supports removed etc.

The deportations may seem small but if they continue to be consistently happening it will deter some from coming. We were seen as an easy system to game.

When Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022 our government immediately made offerings to take 200000 people. We had nowhere to put them but we will just take 200000, basically requiring new new cities the size of Limerick in an instant. It was utter insanity and when the government are now saying 80-90% of asylum applications are not genuine or eligible then it just makes it all the harder to understand.

Papers lately have had features with Irish people talking about not being able to get dental appointments, doctor appointments, long waiting times for procedures etc. The government don't care about the damage they are doing to small rural towns

China is also a signee to that convention but I’ve never once heard anyone criticise China for not taking refugees or asylum seekers…

Because the government see piling people into the country no matter where they are from as some form of shortcut to hit targets as part of project 2040 and it's utterly reckless behaviour when social services, already under huge strain are now totally screwed.

You talk about our own returning emigrants Compared to immigration but how many people emigrating are younger generations, they aren't leaving a house behind to be bought as most likely they are leaving their childhood bedrooms. This creates a massive void as if 5/6 people leave their family home to live in Canada or Australia and are replaced by three couples who each want to buy (or rent) and house or apartment it drives demand up.

When the demand is many years ahead of supply you have a monumental problem. Supply is lagging generations behind now .

Good. Hopefully the government enforcing deportations results in that falling even more

This show 'From that Small Island' is on RTE one now

Are you serious,the same Sds and labour who want more illegals to be allowed stay even though they have failed to meet hhe criteria for asylum. The Sds and labour are only good for undermining the immigration rules that we have at the moment,and are looking for a cheap headline.

Hopefully we will never see the Sds in a position of power,they make Roderic and the Greens look right wing.

You don't think high levels of immigration put pressure on housing?

He's aiming for a career in politics I reckon,reminds me of Aodhan O Riordan who trod a similar path.