Wonder what they’ll do with all the lost passports? Ask the UK if they have a few free seats on the Rwanda planes?
>The measures are to come into effect from Wednesday.
That was quick. I guess all it took is a single opinion poll to show that our current immigration strategy might just be a problem for a lot of Irish voters. Who knew the Irish government could act so fast?
Better late than never I guess?
Word on the street is that the govt read the comment section of TheJournal and gave in
How this wasn’t always a thing is madness!!
What’s that smell??? Oh yeah, an election
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What a bunch of reactive tits the Government are. They should have copped this a long time ago.
I was told yesterday this was impossible, today it is happening. What a world of possibilities we live in.
This seems like a distraction. They are going to use chartered flights instead of commercial flights. That almost seems like a downgrade IMO, the announcement is we are going to spend €20,000+ per deportation instead of €2,000+. It doesn’t address in any way that we are only deporting 11% of failed asylum seekers. So the headline of “failed asylum applicants to be deported…” might mislead you and make you think that we are going to start deporting failed asylum applicants when it could very well be that the same 11% that were previously deported on commercial flights are now going to be deported on chartered flights instead.
What have they been doing until know then out of interest?
Does it make any difference. They can make appeal after appeal that takes years. Zero cost to then and all on our dime. Eventually they get the right to remain and even if they do get a final deportation order, they have to self deport.
Send them all to one of the islands. Give island folk the wonders and benefits of diversity
Finally something actually done even if it’s a token gesture
Creates an incentive to lie about which country you come from and destroy all identification documents.
Given our location, we could maybe take refugees from UN or EU programs and everyone else is told no, this wasn’t the first safe place you reached.
These flights will become a fiasco.
About time. Now just need to clamp down on destroying documentation.
How will they deport them when we don’t have deportation force?
Just saw it here :
here https://www.thejournal.ie/government-charter-flights-to-deport-immigrants-6285308-Jan2024/
I’d kind of thought of immigrants as people who came legally or illegally to work or whatever but not claim asylum. Is an asylum seeker now the same as an immigrant?
I’ll believe it when I see actual numbers.
They say they’re trying to avoid the people who are only coming here for benefits etc but like come on, we’re a small island. Surely there were other countries on mainland Europe who are much closer they could get refuge in if they didn’t care about the amount of benefits they could get.
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Wonder what they’ll do with all the lost passports? Ask the UK if they have a few free seats on the Rwanda planes?
>The measures are to come into effect from Wednesday.
That was quick. I guess all it took is a single opinion poll to show that our current immigration strategy might just be a problem for a lot of Irish voters. Who knew the Irish government could act so fast?
Better late than never I guess?
Word on the street is that the govt read the comment section of TheJournal and gave in
How this wasn’t always a thing is madness!!
What’s that smell??? Oh yeah, an election
[deleted]
What a bunch of reactive tits the Government are. They should have copped this a long time ago.
I was told yesterday this was impossible, today it is happening. What a world of possibilities we live in.
This seems like a distraction. They are going to use chartered flights instead of commercial flights. That almost seems like a downgrade IMO, the announcement is we are going to spend €20,000+ per deportation instead of €2,000+. It doesn’t address in any way that we are only deporting 11% of failed asylum seekers. So the headline of “failed asylum applicants to be deported…” might mislead you and make you think that we are going to start deporting failed asylum applicants when it could very well be that the same 11% that were previously deported on commercial flights are now going to be deported on chartered flights instead.
What have they been doing until know then out of interest?
Does it make any difference. They can make appeal after appeal that takes years. Zero cost to then and all on our dime. Eventually they get the right to remain and even if they do get a final deportation order, they have to self deport.
Send them all to one of the islands. Give island folk the wonders and benefits of diversity
Finally something actually done even if it’s a token gesture
Creates an incentive to lie about which country you come from and destroy all identification documents.
Given our location, we could maybe take refugees from UN or EU programs and everyone else is told no, this wasn’t the first safe place you reached.
These flights will become a fiasco.
About time. Now just need to clamp down on destroying documentation.
How will they deport them when we don’t have deportation force?
Just saw it here :
here https://www.thejournal.ie/government-charter-flights-to-deport-immigrants-6285308-Jan2024/
I’d kind of thought of immigrants as people who came legally or illegally to work or whatever but not claim asylum. Is an asylum seeker now the same as an immigrant?
I’ll believe it when I see actual numbers.
They say they’re trying to avoid the people who are only coming here for benefits etc but like come on, we’re a small island. Surely there were other countries on mainland Europe who are much closer they could get refuge in if they didn’t care about the amount of benefits they could get.
Seems fishy.