As the EU migration pact comes into effect today, we really must ask ourselves are we content with our country being ruled from Brussels ?
I very much doubt that the men who fought the war of independence envisioned that less than 100 years after we had won independence from the British, we would have sold away our autonomy to the EU (formerly the EEC) in 1973.
This EU migration pact is a corrupt bargain, it exploits us if we refuse to take the amount of asylum seekers that the EU designates.
The legislation alludes to border checks between the north and south of Ireland. This is unenforceable due to the Good Friday agreement.
They claim to be enforcing the first entry rule, whereby an asylum seeker must go to the first safe country. However, if that was actually the case, Ireland would have virtually zero asylum seekers, because 88% of our asylum seekers come from another safe country.
The deal claims to put a time limit on the NGO's who for years have made legal challenges on spurious asylum claims. Shortening their deadlines will not make the NGO's less effective, it will simply allow them to get more asylum seekers into Ireland. A case in point was Riad Bouchaker, the man who committed the Dublin Stabbing. He was initially denied asylum but was allowed to stay as an NGO fought for his right to stay here illegally after being served a deportation order.
In short, this deal is a get out of jail free card for this useless Irish government, as the immigration scam gets worse, they can say well because of the EU Migration pact their hands are tied.
In a sovereign democracy, a government's hands should never be tied by a foreign institution.
The EU is a corrupt institution and this is a rotten deal.
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