Last edited by bormotello; 14th March 2010 at 12:43 PM.
On www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk> Latest News
Title 'E-borders system helps identify drug smuggler at Gatwick Airport.'
is another example of how naive Ireland is falling behind; and placing the Irish people at risk.
'A convicted foreign national drug smuggler was stopped trying to enter the country after the UK Border Agency's hi-tech e-Borders monitoring system flagged his impending arrival on a Gatwick bound flight.
The UK Border Agency refused entry to the 40 year old Lithuanian man [our fellow EU citizen, note] on arrival from Vilnius [two hours flying time away] because he was deported in April 2002 [ 8 years ago] having been convicted in 1998 [12 years ago] of attempting to smuggle cocaine into the UK.
The e-borders system which electronically checks passenger data before they set foot on a plane, matched the passenger against watchlists which revealed his earlier conviction and deportation.'
(In Ireland his criminal career could have been so different. With our Government's famous reluctance to deport ( 'Just 20 pc of non-EU prisoners deported' , The Independent, Thurs June 19 2008), this chap would probably have remained in old Erin, after paying his debt to society, and have become a valued Irish citizen after five years residence. What a catch?)
The UK e-borders system (similar to that being used by Dubai to trace murder squads entering and leaving it's territory) exposes the provisions of the IRP bill as belonging in the dark ages; the bill is a document as relevant to running our country as the Book of the Dunn Cow. I suspect that realisation is why the Bill is becalmed.
30% of Ireland's prison population are foreign nationals.
( In the jailhouse now - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie )
So we have plenty of need of deportations, and detection of attempts to return. Will we get from our Government the protection we, the law abiding, deserve?
Will we get responsible laws and an e-borders or equivalent?
Your argiment suffers from the lump of labour fallacy,the idea that the number of jobs is fixed. With skilled people,the number of jobs can expand thanks to the economic activity generated by the skills. Even with so called unskilled workers in short supply,as in unpopular occupations in agriculture and meat packing plants,this can be the case.
Gasterbeiters,disposable guest workers-that is the real purpose of gombeen Irish immigration policy. German policy,known as gasterbeiters,was based on a semi-fascist "blood and soil" concept of German nationality. Ours is based on narrow,parochial,mean-spirited selfishness.
Is that why the economy is contracting and the economy has contracted by 10%? The mass-immigration - for which I blame the politicians and supportive would-be 'opinion-formers' in the intellectual class - helped overheat the housing-market with excessive demand for housing - in turn largely contributing (together with the ECB interest rates) to the housing-crash. The "let them all in" agenda has been thoroughly debunked.
Not strictly-speaking true (govt revenues are different from the size of the economy). But the underlying point is that we are on course to return to 2004 levels in terms of GDP size, which makes all that immigration pointless and constituting a cost - rather than a benefit - in economic terms. That is not the fault of the immigrants. It is the clueless Dublin 4 commentators in the Left-Liberal intelligensia and political-elites who are to blame.