The number of asylum applicants coming to Ireland has surged significantly in the first five weeks of 2024, with January arrivals setting a new record in that period for the past 20 years, the Department of Justice is reported to have said. Nigerian applicants are now outpacing other nationalities in significant numbers.
Although the government has talked a tough game on illegal immigration in recent months, most likely in response to opinion polls which have repeatedly shown that voters believe the country has taken in too many refugees, new numbers from International Protections Application Services show a huge increase, rather than a drop, in arrivals.
A total of 1,736 migrants claiming asylum arrived in the first 5 weeks of 2024 – with 1,333 applications made through IPAS in January, and a further 403 in the first week in February to the 4th of that month.
In the same period in 2023, there were 1,314 asylum applications – meaning that 2024 has seen a 32% increase in comparison.
As the graph below shows, the asylum arrivals in 2024 to date (in yellow) far outstrip the numbers which came in that period for 2022 which was described as a record year.
In 2022, a surge of applications came after the first quarter of the year, while in 2023, large numbers came earlier, followed by a drop-off in applicants in the Spring and Summer but then a significant additional surge in the second half of the year.
In total, in 2022, 13,651 asylum applications were made, setting a record for arrivals. In 2022, a similar figure, 13,277 was recorded.
Now, officials in the Department of Justice said that number of arrivals in the first month of 2024 is the highest monthly figure since 2001 and 2002, and compares to 1,427 people arriving in December of last year.
If the trend over the first 5 weeks continued, we could expect to see some 17,000 migrants claiming asylum arriving in Ireland in 2024, although it is impossible to accurately predict those numbers.
Nigerian applicants are now a large majority of those arriving in the weeks for which data is provided – with 40% of all asylum applicants in the last week (to February 4th) coming from that country.
Another 15% came from Bangladesh and Pakistan, while almost a third came from Botswana, Georgia, Algeria, South Africa and other countries combined.
The only countries featured in the data where war is actually ongoing were Somalia, Afghanistan and Palestine – which combined were roughly 12% of the total asylum arrivals.
The majority of those in IPAS accommodation are now Nigerians, with Georgians and Algerians also remaining in the top three positions.
A breakdown of the weekly arrivals for the first five weeks of 2024 showed almost 4 in 10 were single males, while 13% were single females and almost a quarter were children.
The figures do not include the huge numbers of Ukrainians who continue to arrive in need of accommodation, healthcare, and other services. The Department of Justice were told last Friday that the number of Ukrainians coming to Ireland “had dropped but has now surged again”.
The surge in numbers is coming at a time when rents are reaching record high – almost 30 per cent of new tenancy rents across Ireland were more than €2,000 per month in the third quarter of last year, according to figures released today – and the housing crisis continues, with young people emigrating in droves.
As for healthcare, along with the never-ending crisis in hospitals, the Independent yesterday reported that “more than two out of three GPs in rural Ireland are not taking on new patients and some have waiting times of up to two weeks for an appointment.”
Where all of these people now arriving will be housed and provided for is really anyone’s guess at this stage – but the impact on Irish people who are already struggling with housing and cost of living difficulties can no longer be ignored.
The government’s promises of tough measures to tackle the immigration crisis are not showing much impact in the first five weeks of this year – the opposite, in fact, given the surge in numbers. That also cannot be ignored.
This is an invasion. Let there be no doubt about it. The NWO wants to destroy the sovereignty of all nations. Look what is happening in Europe and Biden’s America.
It baffles me that people are granted asylum from Nigeria
It is 356,000 square miles and has a population of 213 million. If you were genuinely in fear of persecution in Nigeria there is no way in the world you would not be able to relocate within your own country to an area where nobody knows you.
The acceptance of asylum applications from such a country is proof if anybody needs it that it not about providing genuine refuge and it is all about another agenda.
Nigeria is the biggest oil exporter in Africa but gullible Ireland believes their sob story.
How does the government worker who makes the decision to grant the asylum not know that is the question?
See my comment above — in the end it does not matter whether asylum is granted or not.
In Germany, it is possible to formally ask the government a question, and the government is required to answer — these questions are normally posed by parties outside the ruling coalition — at the moment, it is the AfD that poses these questions.
Is something similar possible in Ireland? — if so, try to find a politician who will be willing to pose the following questions to the government:
How many foreign nationals whose applications for asylum have been formally denied (failed asylum seekers) are still living in Ireland?
What is the average length of time such a person has resided in Ireland?
What percentage of failed asylum seekers voluntarily leave Ireland?
What percentage of failed asylum seekers are eventually arrested and forcibly deported?
You will likely be shocked at the answers.
Many no doubt are not formally granted asylum, but per asylum law their applications must be duly considered, and the EU has decided to send this group to Ireland for that (your government is accepting these migrants from the EU, whereas e.g. Hungary, run by more sensible people, does not).
As you suggest, for a typical Nigerian there is very likely no plausible reason to grant asylum — but even if the application is denied (after months if not more than a year, in some cases longer), then the appeals process begins — by the time all of that plays out, the alien likely has been in Ireland for at least two or three years, perhaps will have been given permission to work, and will not leave voluntarily — he must be arrested and forcibly deported — as you have seen in Ireland, this rarely happens (it’s the same throughout most of Europe).
So ultimately it does not really matter whether they are officially given asylum or not — this is the reality.
Unless there is a truly radical change in the government that is running Ireland today (led by an Indian homosexual), and the new government is willing to undertake these forced deportations in the face of media whining, these people will be staying.
If that happens, it will be a tragedy.
No one should underestimate the seriousness of this problem — it is existential — the existence of Ireland as you know it is at stake.
How can any politician take the position that is normal or sustainable?
They have to know it isn’t .
At this rate they will eventually have to call in the UN to help them to cope . But maybe that’s the whole idea.
The Mayor of New York, one of the wealthiest cities in the world is begging for more federal funds to cope with migrants. 4.6 billion is the cost for numbers that are below what we are looking. Today Varadkar signalled his intent when he said that immigration was the solution to our problems. Where are the sane people in Fine Gael.
I heard Varadkar say that and wondered what is going on, how can this be a solution to our problems.
Immigration is good for the economy so here’s 150,000 unemployable refugees.
There is no way that these numbers of people can be integrated in a small country, something will give eventually, they are not going to live peacefully in IPAS centres indefinitely. If Ireland does become a dangerous country, how long before companies start to pull out and the economy collapses. Ireland could become a European version of Haiti. We only have one chance to stop this at the next election.
Varadkar & McEntee don’t care, they will swan off to a top eu job or wef. They are like a dying wasp looking to inflict their dying sting into our country before next election. Haughy declared now he isn’t contesting next election , they aren’t running as they don’t want a headline saying they didn’t get enough votes on their cv. Local cllrs too across Ireland declaring they aren’t running this year. Sf just might have to do a deal with ind or will it be ff fg & sf robbing an election. In 2025. The Green’s are gone baby gone. Will Mary lou sell her soul for a stint as Taoiseach like Micheal Martin did ?
True colours yet to be seen.
China is helping Africa. To counter that, Europe’s response is move them all here – idiotic.
How many of the so called children are unaccompanied male children . In other works adult males pretending to be children so they’re classed as vulnerable & prioritised for accommodation & other service’s . That’s the oldest trick in the book in the UK.
Unaccompanied children can certainly be a ploy alright. Being unaccompanied almost certainly guarantees being granted asylum. But once granted, the child’s extended family may then suddenly materialise out of nowhere and then be granted asylum themselves on the basis of the child needing family to look after them.
Hence “durable elationships”
Nothing will happen to deter the surge. After 20 years of negligence, irregular Nigerians in Ireland are like the undocumented Irish in ’80’s Boston or undocumented Mexicans in present day Arizona.
By matter of law, they have no basis to reside in the state. Owing to political considerations, they will be allowed to do so.
For now
I wonder can I rock into Monaco and seek asylum from Ireland?
My Government is controlling my speech and civil liberties through an aggressive unfair tax system and media manipulation. I feel oppressed and very hard done by. My political representatives accuse me of being a Far Right extremist for arguing and protesting against their agenda. I refuse to be indoctrinated. I feel threathened and its going to get progressively worse for me and my family. I feel helpless.
I quiet fancy a trade up to a home in the South Of France. Might settle for Swiss Alps or similar. Im sure I could have a legitimate case with a good legal team. If only there was a decent NGO to help me along the way. Oh well, I can dream I suppose.
This is the parasites favorite artist, interesting media. https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/10/09/cleon-petersons-dystopian-anti-white-future/
No direct flights.. Dublin Convention
No surprise that the majority of the countries on that list have large swathes of their populations who are Sharia compliant Islamists. Sure, a small number may be persecuted minorities such as Christians & moderate Muslims like Ahmadis, Sufis and ex-Muslims, I’ve a Pakistani friend belonging to the latter group & have no problem helping a manageable number of those people.
However, that’s not mostly who Ireland are getting from Islamic countries, if it was then the Muslim Brotherhood linked Clonskeagh Mosque wouldn’t be the largest mosque in Ireland. I see Palestinians are on the list. Expect many more of them. Sure what could go wrong with mass immigration from countries where it’s the norm or common to violently persecute gays, apostates, religious minorities and treat women like property.
Western leaders are aiding and abetting the long term objectives of the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas are a branch) who have stated they seek to subvert liberal democracy via mass immigration of sharia observant Islamists. The late Christopher Hitchens warned that the appeasement and facilitation of radical Islam was like fastening the noose for our own neck.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/governments-and-media-the-useful-idiots-for-hamas/
A good documentary at what the our kakistocracy is trying to create in our country. https://www.bitchute.com/video/iq6PyYm0IVex/
And this despite the well publicised opposition to illegal migration by the people of Ireland. The regime continue their contemptuous attack on the Irish people.
Any word from Sinn Fein? Are they even an opposition party any more???
Thick Mary Lou is busy reading her Vogue magazine, get her out and put Pearse Doherty in!
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