Nigerians top asylum table as applications keep droppingSo, out of 74,078 asylum applications since 1997, something like 66,670 (90%) were unfounded. Do you suppose they were all deported then?
By Tom Brady Security Editor
Friday January 04 2008
Almost half of the asylum applications lodged here over the past decade were from Nigerians and Romanians, new figures show.
A total of 74,078 claims for asylum have been made since 1997 but the annual figure has been dropping for the past five years.
A breakdown of the annual statistics reveals that Nigerians top the table with 23,341 applications while Romanians are in second place with 11,241.
Nigeria is included in a group of countries targeted by the Government for the speedier [!!] processing of asylum applications....
The statistics, published by the Department of Justice, show that applications overall jumped from 3,883 in 1997 to a peak of 11,634 in 2002.
But the annual totals have rapidly decreased since then and at the end of last November had fallen to 3,645.
Claims were made from applicants from more than a hundred countries with Moldova, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Algeria, Ukraine, Russia, Angola and Iraq also featuring highly in the table....
Justice Minister Brian Lenihan will shortly introduce legislation aimed at updating immigration legislation and eliminating loopholes.
Deportation
The new laws will grant powers to gardai to arrest bogus asylum seekers for immediate deportation.
An estimated 90pc of asylum applications are deemed to be unfounded.
Mr Lenihan told the Irish Independent that many of those whose applications had been rejected, were economic migrants abusing the asylum system.[link]
The article also mentions that Ireland spends €300m every year on asylum issues. Just imagine what other government agencies -- say, the HSE for instance -- could do with that €300m....
Update: From BreakingNews.ie
Asylum applications hit ten-year lowSee also: Asylum applications down 8% last year
04/01/2008
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There were 3,985 people who applied for asylum in the State last year, according to the latest figures.
Another 776 people [see numbers below] were either forced to leave the Republic of Ireland or voluntarily left after failing to secure asylum status....
“I welcome the continuing downward trend in asylum applications,” said Mr Lenihan.
He said it will allow the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) to focus more on visas, citizenship and other immigration functions....
There were 135 people deported to non-EU countries last year and another 225 sent to other European States through the so-called Dublin II Regulation transfer orders.
The regulation allows Irish authorities to send asylum seekers back to an EU country they travelled through before reaching Ireland.
Another 416 people, threatened with being thrown out of the State, asked to be helped make their way back home voluntarily.
That number was up significantly from 238 seeking assisted returns in 2006.... [link]
15 comments:
I don't believe official estimates of downward trends in immigration. If you look accross in Britain you will see the fudge there by government at manipulating the figures. Truth be told, they don't know how many are here because so many have entered illegally.
Neither do I believe the Irish government will get tough on bogus asylum seekers. This is put out to allay fears in the general population that everything is under control. Everything is far from under control. If so your article linked would not say that these people would be asked to leave voluntarialy - does anyone think they'll really do that. No way. Once here they will use all and any means necessary to stay, and there are those in the host population, the bleeding hearts who will help them.
The govt don't need any new regulations or anything else to get tough, all they need to do is enforce exsisting legislation and MAKE them leave, not ask them to show up. A few raids on immigrant heavy communities to round up the illegals and then hold them and ship them out. Thats getting tough. Like its gonna happen! No what will actually happen is what happened in Britain, they will give leave for indefinite stay to those illegals who are here for a few years due to the slowness of the asylum system under human rights legislation and then say immigration is controlled.
Thats how govts get tough on immigration.
They do fudge figures and they lie all the time. They equate ‘prosperity’ with ‘money’ and material ‘riches’. Nothing deeper than that. It’s not a decisive electoral issue because there is a perception that immigration delivers the goodies. It’s a correct perception at that.
But lets not have any pretence that ‘mass immigration’ is about need - it’s about greed. Greed is cynically ‘normalised’ as ‘need’ in the public mind but rest assured it is all ‘greed’.
I don’t like what this society has become one bit. Sometimes I feel that blowing the whistle on the immigration scandal is a ‘lil like grassing up on all your mates as they burgle goodies out of some punters house!
Noone wants this era of economic boom whipped away. But it impoverishes the spirit as our pockets where impoverished yesteryear. Me? I just think we need a healthier middle ground and that the ratrace society is the worst of all extremes!
If you ask me, talk of asylum figures dropping is the Government's way of distracting people before the Lisbon Treaty referendum. The big, white elephant in the room is the arrival of between 350-400,000 eastern Europeans since 2004.
daisy: I don't believe official estimates of downward trends in immigration. If you look accross in Britain you will see the fudge there by government at manipulating the figures. Truth be told, they don't know how many are here because so many have entered illegally.
The government even admits that they don't know how many immigrants there are in the country -- legal or illegal:
How many immigrants have we got?
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics...."
alistair maccarstairs: They equate ‘prosperity’ with ‘money’ and material ‘riches’.
Yes -- and they very often equate prosperity with something like GDP or refer to how well "the economy" is doing without ever mentioning how well individual native Irish workers are doing.
It's one thing to have a booming economy with most of the newly created wealth going into the hands of the already-moneyed classes -- it's another thing to run a country/economy in such a way as to benefit all it's citizens.
There's likely to be an increase in the number of Nigerian asylum seekers this year as the first direct flights from that country started up a few weeks ago.
Direct flights from Nigeria? Of course! It's Nigerians that the Eskimos will use to change the face of Ireland. Rumanians and Poles don't cut the mustard. Mullatos are what are wanted. A chocolate coloured Ireland, that's the plan.
Zorro
I think it's Virgin Nigeria -- looks like charter flights:
link
Dont worrie people there still wont be flights direct between Ireland and Africa as here is the virgin site for you and the closest they get is London which already goes direct.
https://www.virginnigeria.com/en/ng/bookflightsandmore/bookflights/index.jsp
its appalling our government has given a license to a nigerian airline for direct flights between that country and Ireland.
nigerians are colonisers who have attacked our country en masse .They are enemies of our people.
A fascist government which attacked this problem head on would be far better than what we have now.Democracy is now dead in Ireland .
An Ireland free of nigerian scum would be far preferable even if it means living under a fascist dictatorship than what we have now.
Anyone who votes yes to the lisbon treaty is going to be blamed for the mass immigration in yrs to come as if we go with the treaty then we as a nation lose the right to protect our boarders , we also lose the policing powers and asylum system.
If you do not even vote your vote is altomatically void and that is what the government want so that the yes votes gain on the back of the people who dont vote.
If we voted yes there is no get out clause latter down the line.
so ppl go out there and make your voices heard and vote NO NO NO and save this nation that many ppl died for.
29/1/08
Lenihan is just feeding us all lies, having lived in s. africa for almost 2 years, i can tell you that africans of any nationality are hot wired for scamming and fraud, they are so corrupt, it makes ireland look like a un-corrupt nordic country. fianna fail mafia turned a blind eye to all the nigerians coming into this country 10 years ago, and it has'nt stopped since. too many barristers , solicitors, buy to let creepers, and developers are now milking the system thru these nigerian scam merchants, this ireland of ireland is doomed,the off-spring of those here now, will not achieve academically, and will turn to crime,drugs, prostitution, etc etc, area's of dublin will be like the northern suburbs of paris which is over-run with arabs and blacks,the riots in paris will be repeated on a grand scale all over high density developments in dublin,if this goverment was serious it would stop giving them free money, only then will they stop coming, if they are made to work for their money, they will not come, africans by their very nature are work averse, ie. lazy bastards, i experienced first hand in africa when i lived there 20 odd years ago, fianna fail has turned ireland into a future brazil, over-run with the cancer of sponging lazy blacks, the scary question is, why did they do it ?
So you are not opposed to immigration yourself are you angry with rage? Considering you spent so much time as a migrant in other peoples countries.
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