With everyone from former Taoisigh to Sinn Féin and even some of the mainstream news outlets suddenly parroting “right wing tropes” on immigration that were formerly the province of deplorables like ourselves perhaps now is as good a time as any to update some of them. Tropes that is.
All the key metrics are up. Up until the end of September there had been 14,652 new applications for asylum here. That is already more than the total for 2023 and up by just under 80% on the same period last year.
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