According to the EU central statistics there were 27,880 deportations of non-EU citizens from member states in the first quarter of 2023.
Just 70 of these were from the Irish state.
This placed us third lowest of all member states other than Slovenia, Luxembourg, and Slovakia. It compares badly to Denmark – with a similar population but a much stricter policy – which deported 375 people during the same period.
The EU figures also show which countries those deported were sent back to. The somewhat strangely rounded up figures show that the Irish state deported 5 people who came here from each of Georgia, Nigeria, Brazil, China, India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Israel. To make up the total of 70 there are also 30 deportations to Asia but with no specific countries listed.
The overall numbers for deportations from EU member states show that the proportion of persons actually deported in comparison to the number of deportation orders issued remains small. For the EU as a whole the figure has been around 20% over the past number of years. That low level of deportations is also seen here. Neither the EU as a whole nor the Irish state has been able to manage the greatly increased level of illegal and economic migrancy.
There were 340 deportation orders issued by the Irish authorities in the first quarter of 2023 in comparison to the 70 who actually left. There is significant carry over from previous periods as the gap between an order being issued and being enforced tends to be lengthy.
The numbers for each quarter do, however, provide a good measure of the diligence with which the authorities are implementing those orders. Thus for example, the number of orders issued was down from 415 in the last quarter of 2022.
There were 630 persons ordered to leave in 2022 which was an increase on the 160 deportation orders issued in 2021 although that was a consequence of the stay on deportations that was imposed during the Covid panic. The state said that the only deportations carried out during that period were of a small number of people deemed to present a risk to “national security.”
The overall trend of deportations has been downwards despite the vastly increased numbers of people travelling here who are found not to have any or improper documentation. For example, there were 2,535 deportation orders issued in 2019.
Another interesting statistic that can be gleaned from the EU central database on migration statistics is that the number of people travelling to Ireland from outside of the EU and EEA who were “refused entry at national borders” in 2022 showed a huge increase on previous years.
According to the data, 9,240 people were refused entry in 2022 compared to 3,725 in 2021 and 2,790 in 2020. The statistics for 2020 and 2021 also reflects the travel restrictions that were in place due to Covid, and the trend previous to that was evidence that Ireland had increasingly become a target for large numbers of immigrants from third countries. A total of 7,455 people had been refused entry in 2019 and that represented a dramatic increase from previous years.
The cumulative numbers of people found to be illegally present in the state, most of whom seem to remain here given the official statistics on deportations and voluntary departures, continues to increase. That of course is reflected in the massive increase in the numbers of people who are being accommodated by the IPAS.
While that is obviously alarming, the overall statistics for the EU as a whole are truly staggering. 2021 was the last year in which a total number is available and in that year there were 679,730 persons found to be illegally present within EU member states.
Almost 200,000 of those persons were found to be living in Germany.
And that only reflects the known numbers of those who have presented themselves to the immigration authorities or who have been otherwise detected. The figure of 605 for the Irish state in 2022 is obviously pretty meaningless given that many times that number have already presented themselves to avail of the amnesty for illegal immigrants that was put in place by the Irish Government.
On a more optimistic note, perhaps the fact that Minister McEntee is now boasting about cracking down on bogus asylum seekers – along with having temporarily at least deferred to mass opposition to the proposed ‘Hate Speech’ Bill – there is some hope that the tide of left liberal NGO insanity may be stalled or even reversed.