Helen McEntee pushing ahead with new laws to deport migrants to UK amid Rishi Sunak row

*”Begun, the migrant wars have”*

Waste of time. Ireland needs to align its immigration policy with the UK. Ireland needs it own Rwanda, or some kind of offshore processing of asylum seekers.

Even with these new laws, even if the UK agreed to take them back (they won’t) we will still be stuck with them for pretty much forever.

How many actual migrants have come to the UK from Ireland? I’ve not seen any data, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was something ridiculous like 10 and that this is some culture war drummed up the press for clicks.

Edit: why am I being downvoted for asking for data?

Big media storm on this, and Sunak is happy to play it up in advance of next week’s election.

The reality though is that according to the Tanaiste we’ve already had an agreement with the UK on this, the problem was the High Court decision, and when the dust settles there’ll be calmer heads avoiding bigger problems at the border:

>“We will obviously monitor all this very closely and continue to work with the Irish Government on these matters,” Mr Heaton-Harris said, adding there was “no way that we would want to upset our relationship with Ireland”.

>Mr Heaton-Harris said he was “comfortable” with the Irish Government’s proposed legislation, which he said would reset the legal position to what it was before the court ruling

Pretty sure a united Ireland would solve this. No open border

The government and the Minister here and enact whatever laws they wish, but if the UK refuse to take them back to mainland Great Britain, then what the hell can we do? We have absolutely no leverage.

And we cannot count on the support of the British people because of how we positioned ourselves as being pro EU and anti-UK during the BREXIT negotiations. There are also elections coming up over there and the Conservatives are facing a huge loss.

They know this will get even worse if they play soft ball on migrants now.

To many British people, we aren’t just Ireland., we are the representatives of the European Union. Our politicians waive the EU flag every chance they get. The EU specifically France has been forking around their UK for the last couple of decades on migration through Calais, et cetera. We are pawns in a game between them in which we are going to suffer.

There’s already an agreement that allows us to return them but it’s never been used. It’s in the daily mail today. This is all political theater from both sides

What saddens me the most is that human beings are used like this without a care in the world for them. the vast majority are looking for a better life for themselves and instead they’re being shipped around to score political points