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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Boggles wrote: »
    They weren't trafficked or smuggled in by criminal gangs, the vast majority of undocumented people enter the state legally.

    'Some' may be on overstayed/expired student visas, as they're undocumented this can't be confirmed. It's might be equally likely that many more were never students in the 1st place.

    As 'undocumented' migrants, they are more or less invisable to authorities. Thus operate and survive within the black market, which by it's nature isn't prone to paying undocumented taxes is it? Usually operated by criminal gangs and traffickers.

    Do you think the undocumented submit tax returns every year, listing their amount, and sources of undocumented irregular cash-in-hand income or wha?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    'Some' may be on overstayed/expired student visas
    The majority of undocumented migrants in Ireland entered the State legally

    Again WTF are you talking about?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Boggles wrote: »
    Again WTF are you talking about?
    Eh? WTF are you talking about?

    If someone is undocumented how are they documented and thus accounted for? It's largely guesswork to assume they arrived as students, or anything else. You can't account or document for someone leaping out of van from Rosslare.

    It's well know Illegal migrants stay under the radar and remain undocumented, they do not seek to register with authorities, as they will then become documented, and face the prospect of removal. They survive by working (cash in hand, tax exempt) in the black market, operated by gangmasters.

    If Jose or Joe arrives in the US/Aus/EU illegally, and remains under the radar they are then classed as undocumented. when any visa (if they even use a visa in the 1st place) expires. In most cases they will face swift removal if discovered and then become 'documented as an illegal migrant'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Eh? WTF are you talking about?

    I'll try once more, the majority of the undocumented come into the country legally.

    For some absolute bizarre reason you banged on about them working the black market to pay off criminal traffickers?

    Why would anyone who came into a country through completely legal methods.

    A. Need a criminal trafficker.
    B. Pay them

    :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Boggles wrote: »
    I'll try once more, the majority of the undocumented come into the country legally.
    Once again, straight from dictionary.com...


    undocumented : adjective. lacking documentation or authentication.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Jesus. :rolleyes:

    Anyway.

    It seems we all ready had a limited amnesty.
    The Government did introduce a scheme for undocumented migrants who had entered Ireland as students, on the back of a court judgement. The scheme was opened for three months, from October 15, 2018, to January 20, 2019, to nationals from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) who were resident in Ireland and who had held a valid student permission during the period of January 1, 2005, to December 31, 2010.

    No reason not to continue with more.

    Also it would appear some do indeed pay income tax.
    here are between 20,000 and 26,000 undocumented migrants in Ireland. Some 89% of them have jobs, with 32% of them working in the food and accommodation sector, 29% in domestic work, and 13% in cleaning and maintenance jobs — 84% of these people have lived here for more than five years.

    However, though some have PPS numbers and pay tax, they have no access to social welfare or healthcare.

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/specialreports/just-as-the-us-had-its-undocumented-irish-so-now-ireland-has-its-own-illegals-916077.html

    Considering the vast vast majority of them are hard workers, all pay some form of tax but are not entitled to benefits, it is time for another amnesty.

    Good for them, society and the economy.

    As Boris Johnson said.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    And according to MRCI 11% don't have jobs, of the ones that do have 'jobs' many don't even have PPS numbers (as would be expected with any undocumented individual).
    Thus many don't pay tax on their cash-in-hand withiin the black-economy.
    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/specialreports/just-as-the-us-had-its-undocumented-irish-so-now-ireland-has-its-own-illegals-916077.html

    Also states: "some came with nothing, but needed to earn a living and send money home" - that's hardly an economic win for the state is it? Sending money back (to their likely traffickers).

    The temporary amnesty only ever applied to Students.
    Also there is no evidence that the 'majority' were ever students.

    Indeed it's hard to find any evidence of status and numbers regarding the undocumented, as, they're 'undocumented' (without proper documents).
    Throw in MRCI's own bias, and who knows what the actual story is.

    The report also claims "the undocumented change your baby’s nappy. They help with your childrens’ homework. They care for your elderly parent"
    All of this without any background checks, appropriate qualifications, relevant references, security checks, 1st aid courses, ID documents?
    And in many cases not even a PPS number for taxation, that someone legal and properly qualified for, should be doing and paying taxes from.

    The poster above seems to have keen support Boris's ideals, which is rather bizzare.
    migrants should not ‘treat UK as their own’ - Boris J. Dec 2019.
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/boris-johnson-eu-migrants-immigration-britain-general-election-a9238941.html

    Mr Johnson said he would reduce immigration using a points-based visa system,
    vowing to “bear down on migration particularly of unskilled workers who have no job to come to".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    And according to MRCI 11% don't have jobs,

    So just an 89% employment rate so.

    :rolleyes:

    I'd gladly swap them for a fair few of our work shy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    The CSO statistics don't really add up do they?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Boggles wrote: »
    So just an 89% employment rate so.
    I'd gladly swap them for a fair few of our work shy.
    So you've prefer 11% on the dole, instead of what is often called (rightly or wrongly) as zero-unemployment?
    Strange.

    You'd also prefer folks often work cash-in-hand in the black market, doing god knows what, for hell knows who, and with no documentation as to who they are: if they're safe, legal or qualfied to even do such roles, it in the first place.
    Cash money (with no tax paid on it) that is often sent out of the country, often to pay back their traffickers and family there under duress.

    That all sounds reallyyy dddreeaaaaammy.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,646 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    So you've prefer 11% on the dole, instead of what is often called (rightly or wrongly) as zero-unemployment?
    Strange.

    You'd also prefer folks often work cash-in-hand in the black market, doing god knows what, for hell knows who, and with no documentation as to who they are: if they're safe, legal or qualfied to even do such roles, it in the first place.
    Cash money (with no tax paid on it) that is often sent out of the country, often to pay back their traffickers and family there under duress.

    That all sounds reallyyy dddreeaaaaammy.

    Wheres your evidence for this repeated claim?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    So you've prefer 11% on the dole.

    Well I can see you don't quite understand the stat.

    It's an 89% labor participation rate.

    You should look it up, it's phenomenal.

    30+% higher than the EU average.

    Ireland are roughly at 62%.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Wheres your evidence for this repeated claim?
    This is news to you? Seems like it would be common public domain knowledge to anyone who reads a (broadsheet) newspaper, or watch the tellybox news, even once in a while.

    i) Many undocument are trafficked.
    ii) This involves a very significant fee, or debt promise to pay such.
    ii) If taken as loan, relatives (safety, there of) can often be considered as guarantor for such loan fulfilment, by the traffickers. The alternative may be to work 10yrs for crumbs, to pay the debt. Naturally any deviance from that plan results in the before mentioned penalty enforced.

    You do remember the recent case of the poor Viet people found in a truck in Kent last year? Their families paid almost everything they had to facilitate them, or took a loan on their behalf, if not enough cash handy.

    It was widely reported these poor subjects were likely headed for grow houses, nail bars, and such like - if they didn't perform their tasks, again some penalty (or threat thereof) would be used to ensure compliance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Boggles wrote: »
    ... labor participation rate..
    You should understand that any labour participation rate (in this instance/scenario) might well involve tax-free 'off the book' earnings, below minimum cash-in-hand rates, forced labour or even 'modern day slavery'.

    Joyful stuff eh? You desire/encourage this?
    Ah well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,646 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    This is news to you? Seems like it would be common public domain knowledge to anyone who reads a (broadsheet) newspaper, or watch the tellybox news, even once in a while.

    i) Many undocument are trafficked.
    ii) This involves a very significant fee, or debt promise to pay such.
    ii) If taken as loan, relatives (safety, there of) can often be considered as guarantor for such loan fulfilment, by the traffickers. The alternative may be to work 10yrs for crumbs, to pay the debt. Naturally any deviance from that plan results in the before mentioned penalty enforced.

    You do remember the recent case of the poor Viet people found in a truck in Kent last year? Their families paid almost everything they had to facilitate them, or took a loan on their behalf, if not enough cash handy.

    It was widely reported these poor subjects were likely headed for grow houses, nail bars, and such like - if they didn't perform their tasks, again some penalty (or threat thereof) would be used to ensure compliance.

    So no evidence for your claim about undocumented immigrants in Ireland sending money home "often to pay back their traffickers and family there under duress".

    Thought that would be the case, thanks for clarifying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Again just so we are clear, the majority of the undocumented in Ireland came her legally.

    They are over stayers, just like the Irish in New York, Boston, etc.

    I know a fair few of them and none are working to pay off criminal traffickers.

    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    You should understand that any labour participation rate (in this instance/scenario) might well involve tax-free 'off the book' earnings, below minimum cash-in-hand rates, forced labour or even 'modern day slavery'.

    Joyful stuff eh? You desire/encourage this?
    Ah well.

    Is there something wrong with you? :confused:

    3 times now I have stated they should be given an amnesty.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Boggles wrote: »
    Again just so we are clear, the majority of the undocumented in Ireland came her legally.

    They are over stayers, just like the Irish in New York, Boston, etc.

    I know a fair few of them and none are working to pay off criminal traffickers.

    :)

    The majority of undocumented people KNOWN to have entered Ireland came here legally. We literally have zero idea who crosses the border from NI illegally or enters on the back of trucks. Channel 4 did a programme called Smuggled. It’s on their player. It may open your eyes. It was about people being smuggled into the U.K., but one of them entered from France via ROI. It’s extremely easy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Thought that would be the case, thanks for clarifying.
    So you have no evidence for your claim, and all is 100% above board, thanks for clarifying. Tally ho.
    Boggles wrote: »
    Again just so we are clear, the majority of the undocumented in Ireland came her legally.
    They are over stayers, just like the Irish in New York, Boston, etc.

    I know a fair few of them and none are working to pay off criminal traffickers.
    By nature 'undocumented' means very little is known about them, theyre... undocumented.

    Any overstayers in the US are (unsurprisingly) removed, welcome to law 101. Also in the US, likely many more may cross the Mex border without documentation, or notification of intention, before doing so, guess you could call that undocumented.

    So you know a 'fair few' of the undocumented. Go figure.
    Car wash, mincabs, nail bar, fast-food is it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,646 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    So you have no evidence for your claim, and all is 100% above board, thanks for clarifying. Tally ho.


    By nature 'undocumented' means very little is known about them, theyre... undocumented.

    Any overstayers in the US are (unsurprisingly) removed, welcome to law 101. Also in the US, likely many more may cross the Mex border without documentation, or notification of intention, before doing so, guess you could call that undocumented.

    So you know a 'fair few' of the undocumented. Go figure.
    Car wash, mincabs, nail bar, fast-food is it?

    No I don't, unlike you I'm willing to admit that.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    No I don't, unlike you I'm willing to admit that.
    Talking about likelyhoods.

    But you can understand probability yourself. You also enjoy throwing some notes on e.g. the GrandNational, based purley on unproven but still considered expectation upon some horse, like many of us might do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    The majority of undocumented people KNOWN to have entered Ireland came here legally. We literally have zero idea who crosses the border from NI illegally or enters on the back of trucks. Channel 4 did a programme called Smuggled. It’s on their player. It may open your eyes. It was about people being smuggled into the U.K., but one of them entered from France via ROI. It’s extremely easy.

    So you know of one based on an English documentary.

    Cool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Any overstayers in the US are (unsurprisingly) removed,

    They also implement amnesty.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 515 ✭✭✭Lonesomerhodes


    The likes of Flexsource doubt they even have a legal person on books working in their warehouses.

    I know many many people come here on student Visa's forge documents to stay here, change dates etc on the student visa and what not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    The likes of Flexsource doubt they even have a legal person on books working in their warehouses.

    I know many many people come here on student Visa's forge documents to stay here, change dates etc on the student visa and what not.

    And of course you can furnish the thread with some tangible evidence to back up your claims.

    When you are ready.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭Pronto63


    Boggles wrote: »
    About 26,000 "undocumented" people in Ireland. The vast majority who work.



    A sensible amnesty should be introduced much like the one Boris Johnson has proposed in the UK. (Yes the bould Bojo).

    It would benefit not just them, but the country and the economy as a whole.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/varadkar-urged-not-to-forget-undocumented-living-in-ireland-1.3429507

    No point in an amnesty until such time as general immigration policy and procedures are tightened.

    If we don’t tighten things we’ll only have to have another amnesty in another 5/10 years.

    You know that we don’t even put exit stamps in the passport of people leaving the country. We really have no idea who is here and who has left!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭Pronto63


    'Some' may be on overstayed/expired student visas, as they're undocumented this can't be confirmed. It's might be equally likely that many more were never students in the 1st place.

    As 'undocumented' migrants, they are more or less invisable to authorities. Thus operate and survive within the black market, which by it's nature isn't prone to paying undocumented taxes is it? Usually operated by criminal gangs and traffickers.

    Do you think the undocumented submit tax returns every year, listing their amount, and sources of undocumented irregular cash-in-hand income or wha?

    They could well be paying tax. Revenue don’t talk to INIS. They don’t ring up and say we have a Mr Khan or a Mr Gomez here paying some PAYE! Is he legal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Pronto63 wrote: »
    No point in an amnesty until such time as general immigration policy and procedures are tightened.

    If we don’t tighten things we’ll only have to have another amnesty in another 5/10 years.

    You know that we don’t even put exit stamps in the passport of people leaving the country. We really have no idea who is here and who has left!

    Over stayers, the majority of the undocumented don't / can't leave, an exit stamp would be useless. Every country has over stayers, it's not unique to Ireland. Oz have about 100k.

    As for "general immigration policy and procedures are tightened".

    What do you mean by this, what is loose?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    Pronto63 wrote: »
    No point in an amnesty until such time as general immigration policy and procedures are tightened.

    If we don’t tighten things we’ll only have to have another amnesty in another 5/10 years.

    You know that we don’t even put exit stamps in the passport of people leaving the country. We really have no idea who is here and who has left!

    I've long thought that Ireland should start operating a system of exit checks. It's difficult to achieve with the CTA with the UK however.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Boggles wrote: »
    So you know of one based on an English documentary.

    Cool.

    One documentary in which they were able to smuggle 8 people from different points all over Europe into the UK, including 1 via Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    One documentary in which they were able to smuggle 8 people from different points all over Europe into the UK, including 1 via Ireland.

    Yeah I know, what part of my post confused you?
    Boggles wrote: »
    So you know of one based on an English documentary.

    Cool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭Pronto63


    Boggles wrote: »

    As for "general immigration policy and procedures are tightened".

    What do you mean by this, what is loose?

    What is loose?
    Where do we start?
    The whole thing is loose!

    Applicants for study visas have to prove they have living expenses. How much to survive for 1 year?
    €7,000
    Who can survive on €7k pa.
    Is that not loose?

    An Irish citizen looking to bring their family (spouse + unlimited number of kids!) must declare that they will support them and that the family will not be a burden on public finances or resources. They must prove they have sufficient earnings.
    How much?

    €40,000 over 3 years - yes according to our “loose” immigration policies and procedures €13,333 is enough to support 2 adults + unlimited kids without assistance from the state.
    Is that loose?

    We also don’t do nearly enough compliance check/raids like the ones that have just been reported.

    I could go on.........

    We are weak and loose and the whole world, except Ireland, knows it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Pronto63 wrote: »
    What is loose?
    Where do we start?
    The whole thing is loose!

    Applicants for study visas have to prove they have living expenses. How much to survive for 1 year?
    €7,000
    Who can survive on €7k pa.
    Is that not loose?

    Students can also work. The 7k isn't actually that out of date, but yeah probably would need to bumped up to 10k.
    Pronto63 wrote: »
    An Irish citizen looking to bring their family (spouse + unlimited number of kids!) must declare that they will support them and that the family will not be a burden on public finances or resources. They must prove they have sufficient earnings.
    How much?

    €40,000 over 3 years - yes according to our “loose” immigration policies and procedures €13,333 is enough to support 2 adults + unlimited kids without assistance from the state.
    Is that loose?

    Why would an Irish Citizen have to declare anything? :confused:

    A link would be helpful.

    I'm not seeing major holes here TBH.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Let's not forget that many non-EU folks (without work permits) often take up 'self-employment' (of sorts),
    News just recently from Louth:
    https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/0221/1116698-moldovan-gang-co-louth-search/

    Those Moldovans must have been paying some big taxes (not) on their 'business' (of sorts) income, to still be able to afford to pimp out that house with bling. It even has a tennis court, wads of cash, and (had) an AMG Merc on the driveway.
    Suppose some would call this an 'entrepreneurial mindset', when trying to paint (whitewash) a fake picture of the undocumented and their activities.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Here's a fella that got caught providing 6 fake passports to afghans.
    The judge gave him 240 hrs community service!
    He'd probably get more for having 6 plants growing weed. What a deterrent!

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.breakingnews.ie/ireland/man-whose-misplaced-loyalty-led-to-his-part-in-human-trafficking-operation-avoids-jail-981100.html


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Let's not forget that many non-EU folks (without work permits) often take up 'self-employment' (of sorts),
    News just recently from Louth:
    https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/0221/1116698-moldovan-gang-co-louth-search/

    Those Moldovans must have been paying some big taxes (not) on their 'business' (of sorts) income, to still be able to afford to pimp out that house with bling. It even has a tennis court, wads of cash, and (had) an AMG Merc on the driveway.
    Suppose some would call this an 'entrepreneurial mindset', when trying to paint (whitewash) a fake picture of the undocumented and their activities.
    I can pretty much tell you that you ain't seen nuttin' yet.
    The rush to diversify Ireland allowed groups into the country that will make 'our' Traveller gangs look like boy scouts in the coming years.
    Wonder why the Albanian, Georgian, Moldovan, Nigerian, and Roma gangs want to come to Ireland in their droves?
    For starters, they will get free homes and welfare almost immediately since many bring kids along for the ride. Then they are free to commit as much crime as they want because there is very little deterrent in this country and hardly no consequences for their criminality.

    Things are going to get very nasty here soon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    enricoh wrote: »
    Here's a fella that got caught providing 6 fake passports to afghans.
    The judge gave him 240 hrs community service!
    He'd probably get more for having 6 plants growing weed. What a deterrent!

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.breakingnews.ie/ireland/man-whose-misplaced-loyalty-led-to-his-part-in-human-trafficking-operation-avoids-jail-981100.html

    "Judge Martin Nolan"

    I knew it before I even opened the damn article.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,394 ✭✭✭1800_Ladladlad


    Yesterday I read in the IT that the Brazilian father, in a family of five, who had lived in Ireland for over a decade, was due to be deported tomorrow while the mother and eldest daughter (12) were subject to deportation orders which they had received too. It does not mention anything about the other two children who were born in Ireland like the eldest. So Anne Rabbitte, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East had called and got in touch with Charlie Tanagan to intervene in the situation and demanded that the deportation orders be revoked. Well low and behold; The deportation orders have been revoked.

    What is the actual f*ck. Did the large majority of the country not vote in a '04 referendum, in favor to remove the automatic right to citizenship of children born in the country to non-Irish parents. What is the point of this when they are bellends like Flanagan will just revoke them. They've been living and working in Ireland illegally. What was the reason for them to not apply to extend their working visas? It seems to be acceptable to break the law as long as you can go without being detected and have a family in the meantime with the hopes of using it as leverage.


    Link


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Yesterday I read in the IT that the Brazilian father, in a family of five, who had lived in Ireland for over a decade, was due to be deported tomorrow while the mother and eldest daughter (12) were subject to deportation orders which they had received too. It does not mention anything about the other two children who were born in Ireland like the eldest. So Anne Rabbitte, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East had called and got in touch with Charlie Tanagan to intervene in the situation and demanded that the deportation orders be revoked. Well low and behold; The deportation orders have been revoked.

    What is the actual f*ck. Did the large majority of the country not vote in a '04 referendum, in favor to remove the automatic right to citizenship of children born in the country to non-Irish parents. What is the point of this when they are bellends like Flanagan will just revoke them. They've been living and working in Ireland illegally. What was the reason for them to not apply to extend their working visas? It seems to be acceptable to break the law as long as you can go without being detected and have a family in the meantime with the hopes of using it as leverage.


    Link

    What damn reason could they possibly have to allow them to stay, this is a complete sham.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    Yesterday I read in the IT that the Brazilian father, in a family of five, who had lived in Ireland for over a decade, was due to be deported tomorrow while the mother and eldest daughter (12) were subject to deportation orders which they had received too. It does not mention anything about the other two children who were born in Ireland like the eldest. So Anne Rabbitte, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East had called and got in touch with Charlie Tanagan to intervene in the situation and demanded that the deportation orders be revoked. Well low and behold; The deportation orders have been revoked.

    What is the actual f*ck. Did the large majority of the country not vote in a '04 referendum, in favor to remove the automatic right to citizenship of children born in the country to non-Irish parents. What is the point of this when they are bellends like Flanagan will just revoke them. They've been living and working in Ireland illegally. What was the reason for them to not apply to extend their working visas? It seems to be acceptable to break the law as long as you can go without being detected and have a family in the meantime with the hopes of using it as leverage.


    Link

    Saw it on the 9 o clock news earlier. Of course, it was presented as something to celebrate.

    Something rotten at the heart of this country, I'm telling you.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    beejee wrote: »
    Saw it on the 9 o clock news earlier. Of course, it was presented as something to celebrate.

    Something rotten at the heart of this country, I'm telling you.

    Hard working family with young children get temporary stay of deportation to a country the kids have never set foot in.

    Yip rotten to the core. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭Removalist


    What damn reason could they possibly have to allow them to stay, this is a complete sham.


    Gaa jerseys and a few words from Frances Black on twitter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,391 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    Boggles wrote: »
    Hard working family with young children get temporary stay of deportation to a country the kids have never set foot in.

    Yip rotten to the core. :rolleyes:


    Maybe the parents should have considered that before starting a family it was likely they would be deported at some stage if they were not here legally.
    Is there any point in having immigration laws if they're never enforced or enforced selectively depending on how much publicity you can generate?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Maybe the parents should have considered that before starting a family it was likely they would be deported at some stage if they were not here legally.
    Is there any point in having immigration laws if they're never enforced or enforced selectively depending on how much publicity you can generate?

    Sure isn't hindsight 20/20. Stuff happens, life is nuanced. All systems should be some way dynamic and compassionate.

    They are exactly the type of family that would qualify under Boris Johnsons Amnesty proposal.

    They have had a 12 year interview IMO and passed with flying colors, hard working good people, exactly the type we should be giving an amnesty to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Boggles wrote: »
    Sure isn't hindsight 20/20. Stuff happens, life is nuanced. All systems should be some way dynamic and compassionate.

    They are exactly the type of family that would qualify under Boris Johnsons Amnesty proposal.

    They have had a 12 year interview IMO and passed with flying colors, hard working good people, exactly the type we should be giving an amnesty to.

    Why is it that when white irish people work hard and avoid tax people go mad, a foreign national does it and its ‘look at how hard working they are’


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Why is it that when white irish people work hard and avoid tax people go mad, a foreign national does it and its ‘look at how hard working they are’

    They do pay tax.

    Many undocumented do, they have PPS numbers.

    You will have to shoe in your outrage from a different angle dear boy.

    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Boggles wrote: »
    They do pay tax.

    Many undocumented do, they have PPS numbers.

    You will have to shoe in your outrage from a different angle dear boy.

    :)

    Read that again...but slower...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Read that again...but slower...
    Many have been with the same employer for several years and, interestingly, many pay income tax and PRSI through their employment.

    What can I help you with Eric? We have all ready nailed this down.

    The undocumented part refers to a visa or some sort of paper work that legally allows them stay in the state.

    In doesn't refer to a PPS number which they would have attained quite legally when they entered the state and hung onto.

    So like I said boy, you need to express your outrage, I get it, but the tax evading thing hit a fúcking brick wall pretty sharpish.

    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭Killed


    Employers get fined up to 5k for employing these people who work without permission even if they have a PPS number. That's why so many of them work in the black economy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Boggles wrote: »
    What can I help you with Eric? We have all ready nailed this down.

    The undocumented part refers to a visa or some sort of paper work that legally allows them stay in the state.

    In doesn't refer to a PPS number which they would have attained quite legally when they entered the state and hung onto.

    So like I said boy, you need to express your outrage, I get it, but the tax evading thing hit a fúcking brick wall pretty sharpish.

    :)

    Cant be undocumented with a pps number , just a plain old illegal immigrant


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