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

That's what I said. Though I guess I didn't make it fully clear. I should have wrote "it was" instead of "it's".

It is 5 years, but it was 3 years for asylum seekers. The 5 year rule is now being applied to asylum seekers as well.

pathetic!..… Looks like we'll have to get a couple of million more illegals before any real changes.

Pretty much every country in Africa is either poverty stricken, war torn, in the midst of a coup, or on the verge of a coup.

Does anyone really think that would change even if you implemented immediate debt forgiveness?

Europe cannot take in everyone from Africa who rocks up here.

And the much vaunted Migration Pact will solve nothing, given one of the key stakeholders that framed it are….NGOs!

So AS is brought inline with the rest of the worlds rights to citizenship here and that is somehow Nigel Farage Racism 🤣

You couldnt make it up. Its truly terrifying how wreckless some of our elected officials are.

They’ve bottled it

Reforms aren’t nearly far reaching enough

Relative to the UK we’ll still be a soft target. How the hell the government don’t grasp this is beyond me.

Is ARP not due to end early next year??

People berate Tusla but do people not comprehend their workload they have to deal with. The needs in this country are huge now.

We had child protection training and the facilitators said Tusla had 50,000 referrals from schools last year alone. Imagine trying to get through all of that alone and also trying to keep that amount of children safe and in care and trying to find foster families and liaise with them and try to take the children out on outings etc.

It is the same in schools, teachers workload has increased so much because we have chronic needs in our system.

There is nothing humane about Ireland 2025.

How many are actually Minors, though?

O Callaghan played a blinder on the radio this morning.

McCullagh seemed to think he would have it all his own way like he usually does when interviewing some hapless back bench TD but big Jim was having none of it.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41749716.html

It's not just RTE. There's a constant drumbeat from all the mainstream media outlets on keeping our borders open.

It's funny that parts of Sweden are now war-torn due to the arrival of all these Arabs and Africans. It's almost like they were the problem all along.

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thanks for that link! Brilliant. I have to say I hate the agressive style of interviewing adopted by most mainstream broadcasters now! Asking questions then interupting with snarky comments and put downs! Sarah McInerney is another example. A very good interviewer but far too agressive in her style.

Everything Jim O Callaghan says makes sense, he is being 100% honest! Where does David McCullough think all these people will live……maybe on HIS street? Look at what Tusla said yesterday, they are simply overwhelmed, so are all our hospitals! Both my kids went through endless hoops and paperwork in trying to get into Canada and New Zealand, there was no way they could have brought me with them, why should people coming here be any different?

The ironic thing about all this migration and "we need all these doctors and engineers and nurses" they are increasing our numbers in hospitals! So they are part of the problem. The migrants end up looking after all the numbers coming here through immigration! It's not just Irish that are clogging up A&E (our indigenous population has stagnated and birth rates are down). How can that be ignored?

So glad to hear Jim O Callaghan making an effort to get a grasp on this, I fear it is too late, we are a ridiculously soft country and our need to be "liked" will be our downfall. Michael Martin has lead the way on this!

It's like a giant Ponzi scheme. One that would even make Bernie Madoff blush!

To be honest the only way the government, and anyone who supports the current situation, could realistically get away with it is by bringing a severe allegation against their opponents in an attempt to silence them.

If I calmly and professionally came to you with a proposal that I wish to implement Government Policy X because it will boost the economy and help fill the job market you might reasonably ask what are the potential downsides to my proposed policy.

If I then admitted that, to be honest, Government Policy X will result in people living in tents in the city center, many of Irelands hotel rooms being commandeered as part of my policy, severe strain on all public services, a sizable increase in people needing to be on benefits (in addition to our current numbers of benefits claimants) and an increase in specific serious crimes (in addition to those already being committed here)? Well, I would expect any normal person to tell me that the pros are not really outweighing the cons.

So my only option to implement my harmful government policy is to find a way to demonize anyone who opposes it. Make people afraid to speak out. Make people think that the only course of action is to ignore what's going on and hope that they aren't personally on the receiving end of bad consequences.

The accusation of Racism is absolutely necessary to break through most people's firewall of common sense. Ask any pro-immigration or open borders advocate what a realistic upper limit might be for Ireland on an annual basis and see if they'll even attempt to give you an answer.