Ireland: Tensions over refugee crisis and Dublin tent cities
Ireland: Tensions over refugee crisis and Dublin tent cities
In Ireland's capital, Dublin, tent cities set up by migrants who lack temporary protected status are repeatedly cleared. The situation has been aggravated by Ireland's housing crisis and anti-migrant laws in Britain.
In Ireland's capital, Dublin, tent cities set up by migrants who lack temporary protected status are repeatedly cleared. The situation has been aggravated by Ireland's housing crisis and anti-migrant laws in Britain.
The center of Dublin glitters with architectural showpieces, the offices of global corporations. But there are increasingly tents at the base of the glass facades. Some of these belong to people excluded from housing, a scarcity across Ireland and simply unaffordable for many people in the booming capital. The housing crisis is the dominant topic in Ireland right now. When he took office as taoiseach, or Ireland's head of government, in April, Simon Harris promised to provide 250,000 new homes by the end of the decade.
The second group of people sleeping in tents constitute the second-hottest topic in the Irish republic. More and more migrants are arriving here, to this island in northwestern Europe, and its capacity to accommodate them is at its limits — not least because of the housing crisis. The situation has been aggravated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the war, 100,000 Ukrainian refugees have registered in Ireland. An EU-wide agreement means they do not have to apply for asylum first.
Ireland's government openly admits that it is unable to provide all asylum-seekers with accommodation while their applications are processed. According to the government, as of May 14, 1,780 male applicants were as yet unhoused.
As the Earth continues to warm, more temperate parts like Europe are just going to see the refugee numbers increase. It's not going to get better. They're going to have to figure out something. I just hope whatever that something is will be humane, although I have my doubts.
They're going to have to figure out something. I just hope whatever that something is will be humane
Ron Howard narrating - It won't
I can hope.
Europe really needs to get a handle on this. The left don't care and act like it is not an issue, the centre is profiting off it because they own the land and the businesses. The longer this goes on there becomes two options. Europe becomes a third world country or Europeans vote for someone that will actually do something. I would love a left party to actually act on all these immigrants but they won't and their parties are hemorrhaging voters. Going to be an interesting decade for politics.
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Young men were sleeping here; they had to wash and cook on the street, and rely on bike hire docking bays to charge their phones with USB cables.
Officials point to another factor that has led to a rise in asylum applications in recent weeks: the passing of a law in the neighboring United Kingdom to enable the government to deport migrants who arrive in the country illegally to Rwanda, in East Africa.
On May 13, a high court in Belfast suspended the Rwanda Act in Northern Ireland, saying it considered it a violation of the Windsor Framework, which regulates UK-EU relations following Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 ended decades of violent conflict in Northern Ireland between unionists loyal to the government in London and Irish republicans.
As long as both the north and south of the island were in the EU, this wasn't a problem: People and goods were moving within a unified legal and economic area.
Taoiseach Harris reminded his British counterpart, Rishi Sunak, of an agreement signed in 2020, in which the UK pledged to take back migrants who entered the Irish Republic from the North.
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