Post #9425

Fine Gael TD Barry Ward: The new EU pact on asylum will not oblige Ireland to detain certain categories of asylum seekers. Previously, I reported that the new EU pact introduces a mandatory border procedure which member states at the EU's external borders must implement. The pact says certain asylum applicants must be refused entry or detained in designated zones at the borders until their applications are processed including those who are considered a danger to national security or public order, have misled authorities with false information or withheld information, or are from a country with a refugee grant rate below 20%. But according to Barry Ward, it's not mandatory at all and Ireland can opt out of that bit so I guess they're only planning on implementing the shit bits about relocating at least 30,000 of the migrants trafficked across the Med to Ireland annually or being forced to pay at least €600 million to refuse them. They're not winning me over. #IrelandOptsOut 👉🏻join Late Stage Ireland