The Irish government has refused an offer from Downing Street to join the scheme where asylum seekers are sent for processing to Rwanda, amidst controversy over a surge in asylum applicants coming from the UK to Ireland.
The Telegraph reported that the British government said it “was open to exploring Ireland’s participation in the scheme after Irish ministers blamed the deterrent effect of deportation to Rwanda for the surge in asylum seekers arriving in Dublin from Britain”.
Rishi Sunak has rejected demands by Simon Harris, the Irish prime minister, to take back the asylum seekers, unless the EU agrees to receive migrants who have arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel.
However, a Downing Street source said: “If the Irish government believes the Rwanda plan is already having an effect, we can explore Ireland joining the Rwanda scheme. Many countries are looking at a third country now, which is why Sir Keir Starmer’s amnesty for 115,000 illegal immigrants a year is so shortsighted.”
Immigration has become a highly controversial subject ahead of elections in both countries, and claims by the Irish Minister for Justice Helen McEntee that 80% of current applicants for asylum in Ireland are arriving through the border in Northern Ireland have led to disputes with the British government on the issue.
In 2022, Denmark also made an agreement with Rwanda to explore setting up a program in which asylum seekers arriving in Denmark could be transferred to the African country.
However, the Irish government has dismissed the offer from Downing Street, saying “we have our own immigration policy”.
Irish government sources tonight dismissing this, er, offer.
One source describes it as “tragic”.
“We have our own immigration policy,” a second source adds.
Fair to say it is not being taken seriously. https://t.co/lNjDSAZggL
— Hugh O'Connell (@oconnellhugh) May 2, 2024
More than 1,700 asylum seekers are homeless in Ireland according to authorities, with the asylum system in disarray as a surge in numbers means almost 30,000 people are being accommodated by the state at a time when more than 105,000 Ukrainians have also been granted temporary protection.
The shortage of asylum accommodation, coming at a time when Ireland was already experiencing a housing crisis, has led to protests against the imposition of migrants centres throughout the country.
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SEND THEM TO RWANDA!!! The government should not look a gift horse in the eye! Take hand and all and SEND THEM TO RWANDA!
Rwanda is a better concept than what the EU Camps do! potential refugees are kidnapped and held in concentration camps in Africa, without them having set foot or broken the laws in Europe! These EU camps are run by paid despots and one can only imagine the abuse there! I can imagine everything from sexual abuse to stealing their belonging to human trafficking to killings. Why? Because they were moving North to the Med. There is an open slave-trade market in Libya. This is von der Leyen unelected solutions! They are secret because they don’t want independent observers there. At least with the Rwanda solution, we know they have broken some laws!
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-secretive-libyan-prisons-that-keep-migrants-out-of-europe
There you go,the truth is out there
– they can’t pack em in here fast enough before they’re booted out of office, such is the contempt they have for Irish people.
They did not have a mandate for this but proceeded with the plan – carry on regardless.
They know now that the newcomers are going to be in no man’s land now and they’ll drag their heels in not deporting them anywhere.
They’ll swing back now to the moral and legal obligations,until they’ll force their integration plan & claim it wasn’t their fault.
Vermin.
They’re busy deflecting from this story already . MSM headline news is now on the so called protest outside Simon Harris’s home .
I say so called because something is majorly off here. The protesters faces are blurred out in the news stories , however when the Wicklow says no to austerity group staged a much bigger # being it to their door protest outside Harris’s home a few years ago , the faces of those protestors aren’t blurred out at all & are very clear in the images.
I’d imagine the current protest & the one from o’Gormans house last week are completely staged & they are using it as a tactic to crack down on & bring in more laws on protests .
This now coming to deflect from the story of the toddler & the UK’s offer of the Rwanda scheme are all too much of a coincidence.
Given that newstalk journalist was caught red handed pretending to be a protestor & trying to cause trouble & give genuine protestors a bad name , well I’d be in no doubt that this & the protest outside o’Gormans house are completely staged !
Yeah Laura,big time and the power of the media behind em.
“If you keep telling people lies, eventually they’ll believe them”
spot on
It certainly wouldn’t surprise me if true. They’re totally agenda driven, dedicated to controlling collective opinion on this topic, the truth is entirely secondary to getting the result they’re after.
Of course Ireland should join the scheme.
Seriously, has nobody any common sense in the government. They are ruining the country for generations of Irish to come.
If you come to Ireland illegally you should be sent back to a safe country in your continent/region for processing. How many illegals from the Middle East end up in Saudi, the UAE, Kuwait etc? How many illegals from Africa end up in Kenya, Egypt, Morocco, Angola, Uganda etc. How many safe countries do ‘asylum’ seekers pass through on their way to Ireland?
These ‘asylum seekers’ (illegal economic migrants) are completely taking advantage of all the freebies and the inviting government policies – can’t blame them (migrants) really as they follow the easiest path for max financial gain. It’s the Irish people who need to rise up and protect their country, culture and welfare system.
It’s the poorest/most vulnerable of the Irish people that are/will suffer the brunt of this…and the middle class that will pay for it!
You make good points.
exactly and it was Leo himself opened the flood gates to let them all in and stated he was not sorry then ran away with his tail between his legs
Hurrah Thomas, you’re back. We spoke about you and missed your posts. We should put on pressure for our govt to join the UK in the Rwanda plan. We must not let them slip out of this so easily. And then the migrant pact. We are so unfortunate to have McEntee in the driver’s seat at a crucial time in the history of Ireland. She will drive Ireland into the ground, if allowed and must be stopped with emergency protests or whatever it takes. Protests should be concentrating on Mac alone and her doings.
The treason of the regime is absolute. They will do everything to destroy the social fabric of Ireland for their paymasters in Europe.
Who in Europe are our paymasters?
‘we have our own immigration policy‘ – stunning. i’m holding myself back here, don’t want to get banned for intemperate remarks.
The last two paragraphs of this article says it all.
That he wants to get rid of to the EU because it’s crap. You can’t write it
End ‘asylum’. The only honest and logical policy.
Sure, let them all in, government clueless clown’s, can they not get a job anywhere else? we appear to be scraping the ass of the barrel in useless people left to run the services a country needs, can we get people who have an ability to think, in government please. What we have is a group of collective non thought… Can we please ask all native Irish to return to your home land, your country needs you now more than ever.
I have heard of people who arrived back in Ireland recently after many years of exile only to be told they are not eligible for social welfare!
Irish government state that they want to return 80% of asylum seekers to the UK so that the UK can send them to Rwanda.
What is the difference, surely it would be more efficient if Ireland just sent them directly to Rwanda.
The Irish government love a slow immigration system that is inefficient.
If the public opposition can be completely disabled here, we will be ready for the payload, 500k from Gaza
There is literally nothing preventing this from happening. Expect all the joys that that will bring.
They want to destroy Ireland.
Solution provided however the Irish political and administrative State are not sovereign, their handlers in Brussels and Davos can and will not allow Ireland to align themselves with Britain and/or to deviate from the planned invasion and destruction of Europe agenda thru mass immigration of non western cultures. Ireland has chartered a course, as designed, to turn a once beautiful, homogenous, peaceful nation into another vassal state of multicultural chaos, conflict and degredation
We hear this all the time, my question is why is Europe to be destroyed and to what purpose?
Rwanda is a method of prevention. When they know that this happens in the British Isles, they will not come!
What happens to asylum seekers who go to Rwanda?
Who cares.
They can apply for asylum there if they like. Lovely green country so it is. Nice and warm there too
Under the new UK system I believe the merits of a persons asylum application are reviewed while they are in Rwanda. If their asylum application is rejected then the UK do not need to deport them as they are already outside the UK in Rwanda.
This ensures that UK accommodation is not placed under immense pressure by a large influx of economic migrants falsely presenting themselves as asylum seekers.
It prevents abuse of the immigration system by economic migrants.
Thanks for your reply!
why am i not surprised with this gov ffs get them out of office we demand an election now
Move Mount Street IPAS to the foot of The Papal Cross in Phoenix park. The Fifteen Acres will allow Dublin’s shanty town to grow to a million people and will give our Government time to think. It’s the best way, Father, believe me.