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

That self deport is such a pile of ****. I am sure anyone of these folks who are told you need to self deport are saying "yes your honor we will leave" and then getting outside the court room and wetting themselves laughing as they saunter off with no intention of leaving.

There should be no such thing as "self deport", they should be told prior to coming to court to pack up their belongings and bring them with you as if you are deported you will be escorted straight to the airport and escorted to what ever plane.you are leaving.on and it will be at their own expense

The asylum system has been running for over 30 years record numbers have come since Covid .The total number over that period is much greater .

where has this 33k figure come from, we've had far more than that over the years

Do they get free gold-plated toilets too?

don’t have time to look at this but will later, so are you saying we’ve only had 33000 asylum seekers have arrived here in twelve years?

That's not true. What have you actually posted?

Work it out, you're saying (or the figures you posted say) there's been 33,000 asylum applications since 2004?

In 22 years? So on average...c1.5k per year. That's just not true.

The document, slide 5, is showing CURRENT OCCUPANCY. 33,000. Current occupancy, in May 2026. There are currently 33k asylum seekers in IPAS accomodation in May 2026. That's all slide 5 is saying. It's not cumulative.

There were 15,000 asylum seeker applications last year and 18,000 in 2024. Those two years alone make 33k. Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2026/01/06/sharp-rise-in-number-of-asylum-seekers-voluntarily-leaving-ireland-in-2025/

I'm genuinely confused as to how you misinterpreted your own source.

That's all that graph is showing. Ipas accommodation occupancy for each year at X point in time. It's not cumulative.

Zoom in on 24/09/2004. So that means, that particular week there were just under 7000 people in IPAS accomodation. Likewise, zoom in on 25/07/21, there were 7000.

As your own graph shows, the numbers present in IPAS accomodation at any given time, has quadrupled since 2021.

It's not a cumulative graph. It's just showing present numbers for each period. In another year in 2027, the number could be 20,000. That doesn't mean only 20,000 will have applied since 2004.

You were close, it was 33k in the last 2 years not 22 years. Family reunification on top of that, naturally.

Sorry no, I still have issue with this.

You've been making out that a figure of 33,000 have arrived since 2004. And it's just entirely incorrect. Again, in my previous post I mentioned how this figure is not cumulative.

It's a figure at any given point in time, on any one of those specific dates.

I was just browsing back through the thread and came across this original post.

It irks me. It irks me so much to see this and then you doubled down.

Because you're the very person saying "you need to get off your social feeds" (Which I agree with btw) but then post entirely false information. Either a mistaken interpretation on your part, or a deliberate and sinister misrepresentation.

You then posted a link to said graph which again, shows current numbers in IPAS accomodation, not cumulative.

And I also explained we've had 33k applications the last two years, nevermind the last 22, and provided the link for same.

It just really annoys me. Because there's a huge, rational, middle ground of opinion there

And we've incorrect information on the extreme anti-immigration side of things. But then you also come along with incorrect information, saying "What's the big deal over 33k asylum seekers"

Shame on you. Shame on you for either 1) being deliberately misleading with what you posted or 2) making an honest misinterpretation, but posting it anyway because you don't care what the stats say, as long as they (incorrectly) support your argument.

Either way, you've engaged in behaviour that resembles the very social media feeds you advise people to get off.

Essentially promoting racism and divisiveness , in the guise of “anti-racism”.

Your DARVO knickers are showing.

Poster Warned. Let's cut out with personal sniping folks.

-Mod

there should be a ban on posters who post such nonsensical posts, what does that even mean???

I’ll use the term “far right” here also, reluctantly as it’s thrown around like confetti.
“anti-racism” fuels the growth of the far right spectrum. It explicitly tells people with paler skin the identify as “white”, albeit as privileged, or oppressors. Inevitably some people will take the message that they belong to some mythical white race , but will use it as a badge of identity, and opposition to enemies of “whiteness”.

Who Fwamed Wojja Wabbitt ….