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

And in the meantime we spend billions on them.

If they get rejected, all state supports should be cut after 4 weeks and if they wish to appeal they need to do so having left the country voluntarily

And there is your problem, you cannot run Immigration, Security and Justice/Policing on empathy and compassion, if you do every chancer out there sees it as a weakness and exploits it to their own advantage. When it comes to the areas I have mentioned the rules have to tough and strictly enforced with no wiggle room at all for empathy or compassion. Either you meet the criteria or you don't and if you don't then you are not getting it. Look at the problem that has been caused by empathy and compassion especially with the last pathetic Justice minister, you have every tom, dick and harry turning up at our door with all sorts of sob stories, chancing their arm and totally over running the system.

It is the same story with our own scumbags walking around with a charge sheet as long as your body and you have people saying all they need is a hug, when the scumbags will laugh at that and take advantage of it.

I'm not saying you can't have empathy and compassion or what ever else you want, you can, but the people incharge of the areas I have mentioned can't, they need to be hard nosed and clear and leave no wiggle room. You can bet if we had stricter controls, more basic accommodation and applicants not allowed leave the centres they are in till their claims are processed, we would not see as many trying to get here. In no way should anyone who is waiting on a decision on whether they are allowed enter the country and stay should be let roam around. It's madness

Who said "treat them like animals"?

Ah so the only response you have is hyperbole. No one said treat them like animals, just tighten the rules and also remove the ability of people who are going through the system, from moving around the country. Where is the logic in allowing that? its moronic.

Yes, however did anyone even imply people should be treated like animals as you put it.

I'd help and encourage them to go home.

Maybe even try to get some investment in their home countries.

There's a lot been done already and as mentioned a lot of hotel stock unavailable because of refugees and IPA occupation.

We don't do that for our homeless.

That which is unsustainable can not be sustained.

And there's no way around this. Those coming now in the future are going to have to be given a frostier reception.

From looking at the video above, and given that it takes the march 12 mins from start to finish to pass the person taking the video, I would put the total involved of the march at maybe a few thousand but not much more than 5K in total and would be very surprised if was any where near 10k.

On the RTE News just now: Someone in the anti-immigrant march had a placard with a picture of Trump, Putin and Conor McGregor on it. The mind boggles……

The Fine Gael is racist to Irish is my favourite

I agree with you - process claims faster.

Yet when I suggest moving to processing claims with 24hrs or a week, I am told by posters on here that it's not possible.

Every single common sense solution you propose will be met with the same nonsense from those posters i.e they will continue to claim, no matter what evidence you produce to the contrary, that there's nothing we can do to prevent the mass influx of undocumented men from the middle east and Africa.

No solutions or productive ideas will ever be offered - just a rejection of your arguments. These posters do not have the guts to openly say what they actually want, which is open borders free-for-all. Instead, they imply in the most cowardly, roundabout way, that we have no choice must accept the situation as it is.

I would note that since the reckless McEntee and O'Gorman have left office, numbers of asylum applications have reduced significantly. This is thanks to simple measures such as Jim O'Callaghan announcing that chancers are not welcome here and engaging with UK authorities to prevent abuse of the CTA. Now imagine how much we could reduce this if we put our minds to it?

The myth that we cannot control the mass influx of undocumented Muslims and Africans into our country is falsely propagated by open border enthusiasts because it suits their Marxist agenda. It is a waste of time speaking to them because they do not debate in good faith.