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Rapists have been applying for asylum to try to dodge deportation at the end of their sentences, reports the Sunday Times: 🔹 In the cases of an Albanian man and a Pakistani man, both convicted of rape, gardaí attempted to serve deportation orders before their scheduled release dates so they could be deported on release. 🔹 However, both men claimed they were applying for asylum. As a result, both men walked free as gardaí could only serve them with deportation orders once their applications are rejected. They then disappeared. 🔹 A manhunt was issued and both men were found and jailed, but the Pakistani rapist later obtained a High Court bail and is free pending his claim for asylum. 🔹 The Albanian man was detained but released soon afterwards in a suspected blunder by the authorities. After a second manhunt for him, the man said he was withdrawing his asylum application and would return home voluntarily. 🔹 The Department of Justice said it would not comment on individual cases, but while the Refuge Convention allows Ireland to deny refugee status to rapists, it also prohibits us from deporting them to countries deemed unsafe. 🔹 The Times are also reporting that IPO staff are blaming the increased asylum seeker numbers not only the UK's Rwanda Plan, but also because there are only eight countries on Ireland’s IPO safe country of origin list compared to other EU countries where there as many as 20. 🔹 In recent weeks around 50 migrants have been sent back across the border in the north as part of Operation Sonnet, but sources told the Times that a number simply got on other buses or tried another route and came across again. The big success stories RTÉ and other outlets ran on Operation Sonnet was merely news theatre for the elections. 🔹 The Sunday Times also reports on the information first revealed by this channel but worth repeating: The fingerprints of asylum seekers are not checked against criminal databases, contrary to dishonest assertions by politicians, NGOs, and low-quality journalists. 🔹 Fingerprints are only checked against the Eurodac system and the Schengen Information System. The first system solely informs the authorities if a migrant claimed asylum elsewhere in the EU or if they were caught crossing a border illegally. It provides no other details, not even a name. The second system informs authorities if there is an outstanding warrant for their arrest anywhere in the EU. It does not provide a backlog of any prior convictions. 🔗thetimes.co.uk 🔗archive.is 👉🏻join Late Stage Ireland