And Jordan is my favourite country I’ve been to on holidays 🙈
From 53 to 1,000 when there’s a war on their doorstep. Do they really *need* to come here, I don’t know. Bit of a sensational headline though.
RTE needs to be careful here with overhyping this. Enough people are being manipulated and misinformed by the far right when it comes to immigration.
Report on this sure but the headline is a bit sensationalist.
Anyone who questions this is a racist.
Given events in the region and Jordans pro Israel position it is likely that pro Palestinian Jordanians are facing repression. is that enough to seek asylum unless you’ve the details of each case its impossible to say with any accuracy, but the Jordianian govertment isn’t known to tollerate dissent so it could well be grounds for asylum
Anyway this is why we have an asylum system, to access the validity of people’s asylum claims.
How many of those are blokes?
So is a war in a neighbouring country now justification for asylum also? In that case, are people from Poland, Romania, Hungary, Moldova and Slovakia eligible for asylum?
This seems like utterly ridiculous opportunism and makes a mockery of the asylum system. Funny they are pretty much all coming to Ireland and nearly nowhere else.
Absolute nonsense, this should be an automatic deportation. Jordan is a safe western ally with a fledging early democracy, the only possible asylum criteria would be political – and we shouldn’t be entertaining opponents of the Jordanian monarchy who are predominantly Islamists.
Automatic deportation
Ah yes the tragic war in Jordan. Legit applications.
How do I help stop this?
“This requires a careful analysis because holding a passport does not necessarily mean a person has acquired Jordanian nationality”
So, Palestinians in Palestine can have a Jordanian passport? But they get categorised as “Jordan”?
[Regular passport without a national number: Issued to Palestinians who live in Jordan, East Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza Strip for international travel, starts with letter T for “Temporary”.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_passport)
There doesn’t appear to be an obvious way to ‘automatically assume Palestian’ either because other people such as Israeli Muslims can be issued this Temporary passport as well, so if this is actually what’s happening, this headline is on the fairly misleading end of the scale.
I suspose as they say in the article until the actually application is finished we won’t know what ratio of them are Jordan nationals vs Palestinian nationals.
I think the bigger news in that article is 6,275 Nigerians claiming asylum despite only 19% getting their claim accepted. So around 5,000 people here who will likely have their claim rejected.
In the first 6 months of 23′ compared to 24′ we have over a 4x increase in the number of applicants from Nigeria.
In 2023, Denmark had 22 applicants from Nigeria. Sweden had 160. Spain had 171. Belgium had 252. Netherlands had 656. We had 2,084 applicants.
That’s put us on par with France and Germany (although they accept less than half we do and have 10x times our population) and only puts Italy, USA and Canada ahead of us.
The knock on effect from those traveling in from the UK has been absolutely enormous.
Bravo RTÉ.
Another highly inflammatory article, which only at the very bottom mentions that they are actually Palestinians with jordanian refugee papers.
We really need to start looking at RTÉ why are they obsessed with amplifying anti-refugee paranoia.
This will continue as long as we have an open border with the North and the UK. Our government are to afraid to upset the British while they don’t seem terribly worried about almost daily arson attacks nd violence around the country.
The system needs to change. The problem is not “illegal immigration” it’s the system. “Legal immigration” is a problem now and we need to change it.
If these numbers keep up, infrastructure in the country will collapse. We are a country with a population of 5 million with the infrastructure of a country with a population of 3 million. We can’t sustain these numbers.
Huh, I didn’t know there was a war ongoing in Jordan or a famine
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And Jordan is my favourite country I’ve been to on holidays 🙈
From 53 to 1,000 when there’s a war on their doorstep. Do they really *need* to come here, I don’t know. Bit of a sensational headline though.
RTE needs to be careful here with overhyping this. Enough people are being manipulated and misinformed by the far right when it comes to immigration.
Report on this sure but the headline is a bit sensationalist.
Anyone who questions this is a racist.
Given events in the region and Jordans pro Israel position it is likely that pro Palestinian Jordanians are facing repression. is that enough to seek asylum unless you’ve the details of each case its impossible to say with any accuracy, but the Jordianian govertment isn’t known to tollerate dissent so it could well be grounds for asylum
Anyway this is why we have an asylum system, to access the validity of people’s asylum claims.
How many of those are blokes?
So is a war in a neighbouring country now justification for asylum also? In that case, are people from Poland, Romania, Hungary, Moldova and Slovakia eligible for asylum?
This seems like utterly ridiculous opportunism and makes a mockery of the asylum system. Funny they are pretty much all coming to Ireland and nearly nowhere else.
Absolute nonsense, this should be an automatic deportation. Jordan is a safe western ally with a fledging early democracy, the only possible asylum criteria would be political – and we shouldn’t be entertaining opponents of the Jordanian monarchy who are predominantly Islamists.
Automatic deportation
Ah yes the tragic war in Jordan. Legit applications.
How do I help stop this?
“This requires a careful analysis because holding a passport does not necessarily mean a person has acquired Jordanian nationality”
So, Palestinians in Palestine can have a Jordanian passport? But they get categorised as “Jordan”?
[Regular passport without a national number: Issued to Palestinians who live in Jordan, East Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza Strip for international travel, starts with letter T for “Temporary”.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_passport)
There doesn’t appear to be an obvious way to ‘automatically assume Palestian’ either because other people such as Israeli Muslims can be issued this Temporary passport as well, so if this is actually what’s happening, this headline is on the fairly misleading end of the scale.
I suspose as they say in the article until the actually application is finished we won’t know what ratio of them are Jordan nationals vs Palestinian nationals.
I think the bigger news in that article is 6,275 Nigerians claiming asylum despite only 19% getting their claim accepted. So around 5,000 people here who will likely have their claim rejected.
In the first 6 months of 23′ compared to 24′ we have over a 4x increase in the number of applicants from Nigeria.
In 2023, Denmark had 22 applicants from Nigeria. Sweden had 160. Spain had 171. Belgium had 252. Netherlands had 656. We had 2,084 applicants.
That’s put us on par with France and Germany (although they accept less than half we do and have 10x times our population) and only puts Italy, USA and Canada ahead of us.
The knock on effect from those traveling in from the UK has been absolutely enormous.
Bravo RTÉ.
Another highly inflammatory article, which only at the very bottom mentions that they are actually Palestinians with jordanian refugee papers.
We really need to start looking at RTÉ why are they obsessed with amplifying anti-refugee paranoia.
This will continue as long as we have an open border with the North and the UK. Our government are to afraid to upset the British while they don’t seem terribly worried about almost daily arson attacks nd violence around the country.
The system needs to change. The problem is not “illegal immigration” it’s the system. “Legal immigration” is a problem now and we need to change it.
If these numbers keep up, infrastructure in the country will collapse. We are a country with a population of 5 million with the infrastructure of a country with a population of 3 million. We can’t sustain these numbers.
Huh, I didn’t know there was a war ongoing in Jordan or a famine