In 2019, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that asylum seekers should apply for asylum in the first safe country they arrive at by “law” – despite his recent claim that this is “misinformation.”
The former remarks were made on Wednesday the 6th of November 2019, as the Taoiseach spoke at a conference in Dublin by the Immigrant Council of Ireland. This was reported at the time by MerrionStreet.ie – the Irish government’s official news service.
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