>When the immigration official at Dublin Airport asked for the family’s documents, Vuma handed over the fake South African passports she had purchased to get out of the country quickly. When asked how long she planned to stay in Ireland, she honestly answered, “I don’t know, I’m hoping you can help me, we need protection.
>“It was horrific from that moment,” Vuma recalls. “He banged the four passports down on the counter and said ‘For God’s sake, not you people again.’ They were his exact words, I was totally taken aback. I explained we were from Zimbabwe and that we were under threat but said I wasn’t comfortable discussing the details at the immigration counter.
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>The family spent their first two months in the Balseskin centre before being transferred to Knockalisheen. “We were grateful to have a place to stay but the food wasn’t good, I couldn’t work, at that time you weren’t even allowed to clean your own room. You had to wait for staff to come in and do it.”
>As the months passed, Vuma started making contact with residents in other direct provision centres around Ireland including Lucky Khambule, who was leading protests over conditions at a centre in Cork. In early 2015, Vuma, Khambule and a group of other activists set up the Movement for Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI).
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>In 2018, she made national headlines after posting on Facebook that her sick son had been refused food by the night staff at the Knockalisheen centre. She subsequently set up a campaign to raise awareness about children in direct provision.
>…
>In 2019, the year after asylum seekers were given the right to work, Vuma started working full-time for Doras as a policy officer and, soon after, she moved her family into an apartment in Limerick. “I was finally financially independent. We weren’t getting our papers any time soon but I could sustain my family; it was time for me to take control of my life.”
>Two years later, in the summer of 2021, Vuma and her children were given leave to remain in Ireland.
>…
>Vuma is glad to see the huge support for Ukrainian refugees but admits feeling frustrated and angry that asylum seekers in direct provision centres are treated so differently. It’s like, because these people are similar to us, from a territory close to us, we’ll treat them better. You can’t tell me if someone fleeing war in Afghanistan is less important than someone fleeing war in Ukraine.
‘When the immigration official at Dublin Airport asked for the family’s documents, Vuma handed over the fake South African passports she had purchased to get out of the country quickly.’ 🤔
I have mates in Zim.
Some living in Ireland now.
Some still living in Zim.
Why did she need to buy fake passports and flee the country?
Ukrainians are being fast tracked because they want to go home as soon as the conflict is over. A lot of people are coming here to live full time.
Its a very different situation, to pretend otherwise is irresponsible.
Its become obvious we can’t properly take care of the refugees we have already taken in. Why would we continue to take more until the system is reformatted.
This article is written as if to trigger a certain social group.
Whinger who shouldn’t be here
>Two years later, in the summer of 2021, Vuma and her children were given leave to remain in Ireland.
So her asylum claim failed then? Why?
Leave to remain is not the same as being given asylum, although it does mean you can stay here.
>There was the option of going to a neighbouring country but it felt too close to home. I just needed to get very far from there so we could feel safe
What an utter crock of shit. She’s basically an economic migrant gaming our asylum system. The fact that she spent seven years in direct provision strongly hints that those assessing her asylum application didn’t believe she had a credible claim.
Rewarding people like her with leave to remain just makes a mockery of the entire system. They need to pull the finger out and actually start deporting people after a few years instead of entertaining endless appeals and spurious judicial reviews.
Thought I was in the Journal comment section for a minute
Criminal complains about treatment while in process of breaking law
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>When the immigration official at Dublin Airport asked for the family’s documents, Vuma handed over the fake South African passports she had purchased to get out of the country quickly. When asked how long she planned to stay in Ireland, she honestly answered, “I don’t know, I’m hoping you can help me, we need protection.
>“It was horrific from that moment,” Vuma recalls. “He banged the four passports down on the counter and said ‘For God’s sake, not you people again.’ They were his exact words, I was totally taken aback. I explained we were from Zimbabwe and that we were under threat but said I wasn’t comfortable discussing the details at the immigration counter.
>…
>The family spent their first two months in the Balseskin centre before being transferred to Knockalisheen. “We were grateful to have a place to stay but the food wasn’t good, I couldn’t work, at that time you weren’t even allowed to clean your own room. You had to wait for staff to come in and do it.”
>As the months passed, Vuma started making contact with residents in other direct provision centres around Ireland including Lucky Khambule, who was leading protests over conditions at a centre in Cork. In early 2015, Vuma, Khambule and a group of other activists set up the Movement for Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI).
>…
>In 2018, she made national headlines after posting on Facebook that her sick son had been refused food by the night staff at the Knockalisheen centre. She subsequently set up a campaign to raise awareness about children in direct provision.
>…
>In 2019, the year after asylum seekers were given the right to work, Vuma started working full-time for Doras as a policy officer and, soon after, she moved her family into an apartment in Limerick. “I was finally financially independent. We weren’t getting our papers any time soon but I could sustain my family; it was time for me to take control of my life.”
>Two years later, in the summer of 2021, Vuma and her children were given leave to remain in Ireland.
>…
>Vuma is glad to see the huge support for Ukrainian refugees but admits feeling frustrated and angry that asylum seekers in direct provision centres are treated so differently. It’s like, because these people are similar to us, from a territory close to us, we’ll treat them better. You can’t tell me if someone fleeing war in Afghanistan is less important than someone fleeing war in Ukraine.
‘When the immigration official at Dublin Airport asked for the family’s documents, Vuma handed over the fake South African passports she had purchased to get out of the country quickly.’ 🤔
I have mates in Zim.
Some living in Ireland now.
Some still living in Zim.
Why did she need to buy fake passports and flee the country?
Ukrainians are being fast tracked because they want to go home as soon as the conflict is over. A lot of people are coming here to live full time.
Its a very different situation, to pretend otherwise is irresponsible.
Its become obvious we can’t properly take care of the refugees we have already taken in. Why would we continue to take more until the system is reformatted.
This article is written as if to trigger a certain social group.
Whinger who shouldn’t be here
>Two years later, in the summer of 2021, Vuma and her children were given leave to remain in Ireland.
So her asylum claim failed then? Why?
Leave to remain is not the same as being given asylum, although it does mean you can stay here.
https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/asylum_seekers_and_refugees/refugee_status_and_leave_to_remain/leave_to_remain.html
>There was the option of going to a neighbouring country but it felt too close to home. I just needed to get very far from there so we could feel safe
What an utter crock of shit. She’s basically an economic migrant gaming our asylum system. The fact that she spent seven years in direct provision strongly hints that those assessing her asylum application didn’t believe she had a credible claim.
Rewarding people like her with leave to remain just makes a mockery of the entire system. They need to pull the finger out and actually start deporting people after a few years instead of entertaining endless appeals and spurious judicial reviews.
Thought I was in the Journal comment section for a minute
Criminal complains about treatment while in process of breaking law
Gtfo