Gabh mo leisceal?
He didn’t abuse the taxi driver he says
The lack of any significant discussion on here about the Turkish / Syrian earthquake confirms most people have a racist bias. A similar earthquake and death toll in Western Europe or North America would garner much more interaction.
Ironic coming from a racist scumbag such as yourself.
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Ironic coming from you - a racist homophobic misogynistic scumbag who follows women who don’t want you following them
New York taking drastic action far short of @backinatracksuit 10 million asylum seekers for Ireland (or 60 trillion), whatever he ended up landing at 
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A black Democrat too
10 million was your figure, about as realistic as 60 trillion in fairness,
But why would you tag me in a report about New York anyway, mad stuff 
You could choose any number you so wish. I tagged you because it relates to the general conversation on migration and policies on same
he should have been killed
Dem fucking foreigners coming over here sleeping with our food and eating our women.
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Michael McDowell: No time to consult communities in the middle of a migration crisis
A recent rally outside the GPO on O’Connell Street in Dublin expressing solidarity with refugees: ‘Ireland needs migrants and we should warmly welcome them when they come here legally.’ Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
In the middle of a crisis, there is very little sense in attacking the Government for failing to consult local communities about the selection of places to accommodate refugees or asylum seekers. Who in the community would you need to consult if you were minded to use, say, the disused Baggot Street Hospital or the vacant Jurys hotel for that purpose? Local traders? Local public representatives? Residents or community associations?
If there were no such crisis, it would be nice, respectful and sensible to conduct a relaxed prior consultation with all of those categories. But we have a crisis on our hands. Finding emergency accommodation is no easy task. And it is not going to be any easier as we approach the tourist season and entire regional economies need hotel accommodation for tourists to sustain restaurants, bars, music venues and festivals. Livelihoods are at stake if tourism dries up.
Added to our underlying shortage of domestic accommodation, high rents, stuttering home-building, planning disputes, gross underprovision of social and affordable housing by housing authorities, the Ukrainian refugee wave and increased non-Ukrainian asylum-seeking reaching record levels, we have a perfect storm.
The war in Ukraine is not likely to end soon. A mass return of Ukrainian war refugees is a long way off
It is now accepted that we cannot end direct provision in present circumstances. In fact, one problem with direct provision is the inability of people with leave to remain leaving their direct provision accommodation.
The war in Ukraine is not likely to end soon. A mass return of Ukrainian war refugees is a long way off, as best one can judge.
The Government can do some things to avoid having a semi-permanent situation of people forced to live in the streets, in tent camps, or in field hospital-style accommodation in halls, arenas or warehouses. We need emergency legislation to empower a specialist agency to acquire, lease, or take on compulsory licence property such as Baggot Street hospital, disused hotels, underused religious institutional buildings, vacant buildings and the like.
We also need to face up to the failures being encountered in the administration of the International Protection Act 2015. Ireland is not alone in buckling under the strain of migration posing as asylum-seeking. We need clarity in this area.
[ Boats, tents, park benches: how EU countries are accommodating Ukrainian refugees ]
Delays in adjudicating on claims for asylum have not been dealt with since that Act was commenced. The Cabinet was told that Gardai have resumed a skeleton spot-check twice weekly to attempt to deal with asylum seekers boarding flights to Ireland from safe countries and claiming to have lost or destroyed their ID and passports when presenting at immigration.
The excuse offered for this is that asylum seekers might want to protect the identities of people supplying them with such documentation. That cannot be allowed in the real world, except in the most limited of cases. It massively delays any fair adjudication of the great majority of cases of missing documentation. And that is no accident. Garda checks carried out randomly twice a week are not the answer.
We were told that such checks were discontinued after Charlie Flanagan left office. Why? And why are they only now being reintroduced? I suspect that it was thought to be pointless in the context of an ongoing obligation to deal with all missing documentation cases.
Some 40 per cent of asylum seekers from places such as Georgia and Albania arriving undocumented demonstrates that the system is broken and is being abused. Georgians have visa-free access to EU states. Georgia and Albania are “safe countries”.
We are not told what percentage of all asylum claims are successful at the end of the long process. We need to know that figure
Why do Georgia and Albania account for 20 per cent and 13 per cent respectively of recent asylum claims in Ireland? Why are they not dealt with by a summary process and returned if they fail to produce immediate and cogent evidence of a real likelihood of state persecution?
We are not told what percentage of all asylum claims are successful at the end of a process that is now taking two and three years in ordinary cases. We need to know that figure. And we need to know by country where applications are succeeding.
This paper reported that a “fast-track” procedure commenced in November to deal with safe country cases, resulting in 352 interviews having occurred. That is not really a fast-track at all.
Even if the Government’s stated intention is to reduce the period for “safe country” adjudications from two years to three months, it will be ineffectual if applicants simply disappear at the end and avoid deportation.
Apart from Ukrainian refugees, we are now heading back to the records levels of asylum seeking that we witnessed 20 years ago.
Ireland needs migrants and we should warmly welcome them when they come here legally. They have made a large contribution to our society in many, many ways.
Dealing fairly and effectively with migration posing as asylum-seeking is difficult. But it must be done if we are to avoid playing into the hands of political extremists, for whom failure to do so is manna from heaven.
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If I were a people trafficker I couldn’t imagine a better system than we have here.
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You need more documentation to collect a winning bet in Oireland than you do to gain entry through a border and get a free gaff. Some country
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Good to see. DeSantis did it to the North Eastern coastal elites last year in transporting many to Martha’s Vineyard.
This fella is an awful human being. Flapping like the wind. Bit late in the day to be getting firm.
He doesn’t believe a word of it. He’ll say whatever he feels will earn him votes, depending on whichever way the wind is blowing. As disingenuous a politician as this country has ever elected.
We basically have given the green light to people traffickers and bogus asylum seekers to come here in their droves. If we had a firm, coherent and organised immigration policy that allowed in genuine cases and weeded out the scammers we’d nip an awful lot of these issues in the bud.
Instead we basically have open borders and all the problems that come with it. All the main political parties won’t open their mouth about it for fear of being labelled racist or far right.
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Yep, it’s going to be a grim slow “I told you so” few years.
A la Brexit.