We’re told there is no link between rising migration rates and crime. It must be true because the Irish Times tells us that there’s no evidence to back up such an assertion, while being coy about the state making a deliberate decision not to gather the data on the nationality of those accused of crime.
Yet we are then told that the government has just spent at least €182,000 on deporting 24 Romanians last night – all of whom had criminal convictions in the State for offences including sexual assaults, drug supply, and involvement in burglary gangs.