Looks like Big Jim's migration reforms (lol) are working a treat.
A total of 350 people claimed asylum in Ireland last week, the highest weekly arrival number since September 2024.
www.rte.ie
A scanning of the figures shows that the vast majority are men of course, and the country with the most applicants is Somalia (ffs).
I wonder which community will be blessed by the owner of some disused hotel with the presence of these upstanding citizens.
On a serious note, the government revealed recently that 90 per cent of "international protection applicants" are arriving via the North. The asylum shoppers are traveling through a host of safe countries, making their way to the North and exploiting the CTA to rock up in Dublin claiming to be fleeing persecution. It's fucking laughable. A government interested in dealing with this scam crisis would simply refuse the applications of anyone unable to provide proof of legal entry and without documentation.
Instead these scammers are accommodated at our expense, never deported, and eventually granted leave to remain - whether that's through being granted refugee status or some bullshit amnesty.
Somalia? Afghanistan? These are some of the most dysfunctional shitholes in the world. Can the government ensure communities being burdened by these people that there are no rapists and murderers among them? Is there another Riad Bouchaker rocking up on our shores?
Fuck knows.
These scammers can't believe their luck to have found such a wrecklessly governed country.