Most 'Asylum Seekers' lying through their teeth!

[forest]

Nothing in the EU treaties about this. You're confusing it with freedom of movement which only extends to existing EU states.

The EU has signed up to certain international agreements on refugees but I'll admit I do not know waht they are off the top of my head

[Conor]

The number of asylum-seekers in 1992 was around 39. They are now in the thousands. Why do people think that is? Cmon...

Perhaps because this is now a more attractive place in which to live?

Or maybe air travel has come down in price over the past fifteen years?


What's your point?

[eurocrat]

No it isn't - Ireland, Britain and Sweden were the only countries to allow open access from the start. None of the others did.

There was no deal. We voted twice on the last Nice Treaty .....

Let's not here any more arguments over what is going on with these so called 'Asylum Seekers'.

You are confusing Asylum Seeker with migrants from the new EU contries. Two totally different (no a legal sense) types of immgrants.

By the way, why do you use the expression 'so called'?? Are you suggesting that they are not Asylum Seekers?

[ailish]

Nothing in the EU treaties about this. You're confusing it with freedom of movement which only extends to existing EU states.

The EU has signed up to certain international agreements on refugees but I'll admit I do not know waht they are off the top of my head

The EU may have signed these agreements but within this framework, there also has to be a need for each EU member country itself to devise laws that logically correspond to the big numbers of asylum seekers flocking to those countries. These would be mainly the english speaking countries like Ireland and britain along with other ones like France. The Irish people see fit the need to have a stringent (but I'll admit it is laxed) policy on the problem of thousands of asylum seekers coming to the country every year, many of whom are welfare migrants. I'll admit I wasn't even aware that the numbers being deported were substantially lower compared to the number of asylum seeker applicants. Perhaps, our so called 'working' politicians could raise this issue in the Dail?

[FutureTaoiseach]

The number of asylum-seekers in 1992 was around 39. They are now in the thousands. Why do people think that is? Cmon...

Perhaps because this is now a more attractive place in which to live?

Or maybe air travel has come down in price over the past fifteen years?


What's your point?

That it would seem to confirm the validity of what Mr.Aylward said?

[jmcc]

The number of asylum-seekers in 1992 was around 39. They are now in the thousands. Why do people think that is? Cmon...

Most of them were economic migrants posing as asylum seekers. Ireland's asylum system has been an easy target up until the referendum that closed the loophole that was being exploited? The fact that someone went on the record about the problem will probably upset the RAR types.

Regards...jmcc

[ailish]

The number of asylum-seekers in 1992 was around 39. They are now in the thousands. Why do people think that is? Cmon...

Most of them were economic migrants posing as asylum seekers. Ireland's asylum system has been an easy target up until the referendum that closed the loophole that was being exploited?

Regards...jmcc

Posing as an asylum seeker when actually being an economic migrant seems to be a big problem here alright. The Government does need to prevent this.

[Conor]

Most of them were economic migrants posing as asylum seekers. Ireland's asylum system has been an easy target up until the referendum that closed the loophole that was being exploited?

HWGA....

What loophole, jmcc?

[Conor]

The number of asylum-seekers in 1992 was around 39. They are now in the thousands. Why do people think that is? Cmon...

Perhaps because this is now a more attractive place in which to live?

Or maybe air travel has come down in price over the past fifteen years?


What's your point?

That it would seem to confirm the validity of what Mr.Aylward said?

Go on...

[Leathuru]

Funny how when it comes to foreign illegals in Ireland, the government is and senior civil servants make such a fuss while at the same time they plead for special treatment for Irish illegals in the US.