Minister Helen McEntee: 80 per cent of asylum seekers are arriving from the UK.Last week, I highlighted the case of a Pa...
Minister Helen McEntee: 80 per cent of asylum seekers are arriving from the UK.
Last week, I highlighted the case of a
Palestinian man living in Jordan who said he arrived in Dublin to file an asylum application by first applying for a UK visa as a Jordanian citizen, flying into Luton and then over to Belfast. He said the visa prohibited him from filing an asylum application in the UK.
Footage captured in March
showed a family of Africans arriving on O'Connell St in a taxi from the north who subsequently went to the IPO.
Also in March, the High Court
ruled that Ireland's designation of the UK as a "safe third country" for returning asylum seekers is contrary to EU law. The new EU pact does not address this.
McEntee here mentions our common travel area with the UK but it doesn't apply to non-British citizens. Taxi drivers or anyone facilitating their transit from the north should face charges of migrant trafficking.
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