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

Front page of the UK Telegraph today. The far-left have got what they wanted.

"We call this a George Floyd moment,” said David Kaliba, a 35-year-old physics student who went to school with Mr Sakila. “I can’t believe it happened in America in 2020 and happened in Ireland in 2026.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/21/migrant-dublin-crushed-death-shoplifting-security-guard/

Death of ‘shoplifter’ restrained by security guards ‘Ireland’s George Floyd moment’

It goes without saying that the death should be investigated and anyone culpable held to account, but without the whole racist "George Floyd" circus.

We've only recently started doing enforced deportations and then in such low numbers as to be more for show than effectiveness.

This should be very simple really..

• Come here under false pretences? Economic migrant posing as a refugee? Back where you came from!
• Can't identify/prove who you are? Lost or destroyed your documents en route? Back where you came from!
• Arrive in the back of a container, via NI, or otherwise tried to circumvent immigration checks? Back where you came from!
• No job lined up? No needed skills to offer? No means to support yourself? Back where you came from!
• Committed serious crimes in the past? Back where you came from!
• Commit repeated or serious crimes while in our country? Back where you came from!
• Cause other disruptions in the community because of cultural or religious demands that are incompatible with those of a modern, liberal Western society, and refuse to integrate with that society in a positive manner supportive of our values and norms? Back where you came from!
• Application denied? ONE appeal rejected? Back where you came from!

In each case, biometric and other identifying data recorded and added to a deny list that immediately marks them as ineligible indefinitely should they turn up again!

Then there's the whole question of citizenship and how we basically give it away or sell it for peanuts. It should be very difficult to gain this status (most should never need it to still be able to work and live here legally), and only after a demonstrated proven track record of social and cultural integration, employment and economic contributions, and a significantly longer time frame of doing this than the few years we currently require.

But... Gain this citizenship and then violate the privileges given you through actions as described above? Citizenship stripped, back where you came from!

All very easy to do and enforce really if we had the political will - but until we start collectively respecting our country, society and people more than we do now, how can we expect anyone else to?

You're not wrong. Collectively we are very immature and amateur at State level. No coordination, no long term planning or vision, reactive rather than proactive, and plagued with inefficiency, waste, nepotism, unaccountability and other issues.

Essentially the country runs on what I've repeatedly referred to as the "ah shure it'll be grand!" approach, which of course is no way to live a life never mind run a country!

We're only at this Governance/independence thing a little over 100 years though (and we keep trying to give it away again at every opportunity - to the Church, then the EU) so not really that surprising that we screw it up repeatedly.

The problem is that we seem incapable of learning from our mistakes, or just refuse to. Worse, we can't learn from the mistakes of others either - instead we not only copy them, we somehow find a way to make the problems actually worse!

She was handpicked and is being used to push an agenda because she looks like she is not the brightest.

She has annoyed the travelling community and the general public.

I feel sorry for her, she is a puppet or is someone mentally unwell.