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

Look, I agree that the West should leave other countries alone. My point is, that whenever someone from middle east gets all stabby, we always hear the argument that the West intervention is responsible.

And to me, it just totally removes agency from the stabby people. Like they're just drones, no agency, no accountability, no blame. It's our fault. These adults can't be responsible. And that's crazy to me, how people lay defence for such people.

Like I'll get in board to a point. All what you've said, it's everyone else's fault they're like this, sure thing. But they're still like this, and that's a problem in itself.

If your house is destroyed by a burst pipe, you can get to the root, fix the pipe, won't happen again,etc. Correct thing to do.

But you still gotta deal with the flooded shít.

Under normal circumstances I might agree, but we are essentially in an emergency from a capacity, services and increasingly security point of view.

Ireland gives more than its fair share of foreign aid with 2.35 billion spent in 2024 alone :

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-foreign-affairs/press-releases/minister-richmond-launches-irish-aid-annual-report-2024-showing-irelands-impact-in-over-100-countries/

That's a lot when you consider the domestic challenges we face in housing, healthcare, infrastructure and all the rest - not to mention the additional billions spent on accommodating and financially supporting the refugees and economic migrants already here.

Then you see links like Jeff2's above. An additional 30 billion to be added to national debt over the next 3.5 years! This in a country that we keep getting told has one of the best economies in the Eurozone if not the world! Something doesn't add up.

Either way, Ireland has done more than its part to help the poor and unfortunate of the world. It doesn't mean we should bring or invite them here to our own struggling little island.

We can't afford to be importing any more dependents, or drains on the public finances, especially those with nothing to offer except maybe the ability to deliver a takeaway or work in a garage shop - those skills we can definitely fill at home.

As I and many others have said, we absolutely need to tighten and improve the turnaround time for asylum applications and ensure that those rejected are actually sent back to whenever they came from - not just left to roam the streets in the meantime or asked nicely if they wouldn't mind getting themselves to the airport. Rather they should be accommodated in a nearby processing location until the outcome is decided.

When that happens, they should be told to attend an interview, be prepared to depart immediately if it's unsuccessful and then escorted by immigration officials to the airport immediately after the meeting.

If they don't like this process or think it's unfair, they are more than welcome to depart immediately instead - no one forced them to come here, and certainly no one is forcing them to remain.

We should be looking at the work visa situation too. "IT" for example is a very broad term as anyone who works in it (like myself) will know. Do we really need so many Indian call centre staff, or who are doing basic deskside roles?

Only specialised, highly skilled, or experienced people should be "imported" for locally based roles if those people can't be found here (which given the amount of IT companies and workers here already is a bit hard to believe) - not just because they're cheaper to hire than local talent. The same thing applies to the healthcare sector - especially as so many of our own graduates are being forced to emigrate themselves.

Again as I've said before, Immigration needs to start benefiting Ireland, not just new arrivals looking for handouts or their cut of what we've built over the past 30 years, or employers looking to cut salary costs.

Because if we did such (entirely sensible) things you'd immediately have the far left political groups, the NGOs, and the crusaders out claiming that it was inhumane and akin to concentration camps or something.

The key difference that wouldn't be mentioned of course (as I said above) is that no one would be forcing these people to stay. They could be escorted to the airport and sent back to where they came from or anywhere else that would take them.

Better off just not engaging in the first place.

Tells you all you need to know about this thread and where the lads are getting their marching orders from.

Soros nonsense check.

Everyone's a lefty including the victims family , check.

Billionaires graft hard for their money harder than anyone and we should praise all that effort anyone that says anything about a wealth tax is a socialist , check .

Pogroms are legitimate concerns , check.

Bunch of stooges for foreign nations and billionaires trying to disrupt countries across the world and remove stability so they can gain wealth or a foot hold. Various folks on here said they were ok with Ukrainians but the funny part is Russia a large funder and origin of a portion of the the online automated mind play hates your Ukrainian pals.

All this subterfuge your under is fairly obvious once you take a few steps backwards.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/09/tommy-robinson-meets-elon-musk-father-moscow

And farage is involved too.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-11/belfast-riots-tommy-robinson-elon-musk/106786798?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bluesky_news.abc.net.au

The cross overs here a highly visible and people are being played like fiddles.