Gardaí to be deployed to border with Northern Ireland amid row with UK over asylum seekers
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/gardai-to-be-deployed-to-border-with-northern-ireland-amid-row-with-uk-over-asylum-seekers/a1762467432.html
Posted by PoppedCork
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Woah 🤯
Do we have spare Gardaí ?
100 gardaí to be redeployed from desk duties to frontline roles stopping asylum seekers who have first travelled through UK.
Ah sure we don’t need those gardaí anywhere else. There hasn’t been any sort of far-right riots or arsons we might need them for.
/s
Good! I would remind our politicians that we have soldiers and naval personnel as well who could be mobilised for this.
the hard brexiteers are going to love this. ‘see, they can do a hard border when they want to!’
it’s what they’ve wanted all along. and, for what it’s worth, flooding the EU with refugees is exactly what Putin did to Finland
There’s nothing the guards can do. Once people are able to make it in to the Republic, they can claim asylum. Never any harm having more guards out and about but this is just for show.
There’d need to be checks between Britain & NI to make any difference but obviously that’s not going to happen either.
We need a to implement ID checks on the sea border with the north and rest of the UK. At the ferry ports and airports in the north
SF are in gov in the north they need to get on this
I have still yet to see anywhere how many people we are talking about here.
Is this like 7 people last week from the one family that come from the UK because they have friends and connections in Ireland or is this like what some are trying to make out as an invasion of 1000’s a week?
It is a very different response depending on what the hard numbers are. Are we depoloying 100’s of Gardia just to make people feel better or to actually prevent mass migration?
Last time this happened on a large scale was for Foot and Mouth. There were Gardaí on checkpoints at many of the crossings to NI. But that was checking for animal smugglers. Checking for ID is going to be a much bigger task.
The reporting on this is becoming so fevered in the hope of clicks that it’s becoming irresponsible. These kinds of checks have been going on for more than a decade, they call it operation Gull on the UK side and operation Sonnet here. Has been going on for years:
>During the month of February 2024, Operation Sonnet checkpoints were carried out by personnel
attached to the Garda National Immigration Bureau on the M1 motorway at the border with Northern
Ireland on four separate days. A total of 47 buses travelling southbound to Dublin were stopped and
immigration checks carried out in respect of all passengers on board. From the 47 buses, a total of 25
persons were detected entering the State illegally, without the relevant visas or travel documents. All
were subsequently refused leave to land and returned to the UK by ferry to Holyhead (19) and train
to Belfast (6).
https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/publications/general-reports/commissioner-s-monthly-reports-to-policing-authority/commissioner-s-report-to-the-policing-authority-march-2024.pdf
Good.
Passport/PPS/driving licence/electric bill check.
None of the above and you’re turned back.
It’s not a hard border, just looking after the state
They gonna do anything to sort accommodation for these Gardai or fuck them up there with hardly any warning like they did with those sent up to Dublin after the riots.
To do what, drive them here?
Should we also arrange to have asylum seekers sent to Rwanda? Not that I’m one to decide who should and shouldn’t be allowed into the country. But if we’re sending them back to the UK then we’re complicit in them being sent to Rwanda. I know you can’t make such an arrangement overnight but the point should be to work with the UK on the issue.
Great!! 100 Gardaí, suppose the issue across the land of not enough guards has evaporated
This and the fact they will barely be able to cover the motorways with this amount… Anyone here who lives on the border will knows there are probably 5 usual crossings they use and 10 others that could be used but are a bit of the beaten track. This is a token effort at best
Let’s put the army checkpoints up again, I sure loved those as a kid!! Let’s go back in time to all the killings, yay!!!!!
This whole thing is really going to highlight every single Govt failure over the years at once.
Our under resourced force will be deployed to the border and the crime gangs will have a field day.
This time is different I suppose. And this would be a temporary measure only. Just to show force to the British.
Hope there’s a United Ireland soon and we can ignore these issues. Not such a seamless border any more
Brexit is Brexit.