Ireland blames Rwanda policy for influx of migrants from UK

Ireland is experiencing an influx of asylum seekers that has been triggered by the UK’s new policy of deporting some migrants to Rwanda.

Taoiseach Micheal Martin said refugee accommodation was filling up with international arrivals who entered the state via the UK, at a time when its open-door strategy for refugees fleeing Ukraine has seen 40,000 people arrive from the conflict.

Travel between Ireland and the UK is open and barrier-free, and Northern Ireland has the only UK land border with the European Union.

IRELAND
IRELAND

Mr Martin said that of those at the reception centre for Ukrainians at Citywest in Dublin, 70 per cent are now international protection applicants.

“We will be analysing this, but something has happened in the last two to three months in terms of the surge within international protection applicants, something has clearly happened,” the taoiseach said.

Read More : https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2022/07/15/ireland-blames-rwanda-policy-for-influx-of-migrants-from-uk/


Location: Ireland

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Israel-Lebanon border fire stokes fears of wider war

Image
If Israel does invade the Palestinian enclave of Gaza in its war on Hamas, Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement has warned it may escalate its military involvement. A shell from Israeli artillery explodes over a house in al-Bustan, a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. BEIRUT: Israel's northern border with Lebanon is often tense, the legacy of past conflicts. But as Israel readies to invade Gaza, its army faces the threat of a two-front war. Repeated fire in recent days has claimed lives on both sides of the UN-patrolled border between Lebanon and Israel, which remain technically at war. If Israel does invade the Palestinian enclave of Gaza in its war on Hamas, Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement has warned it may escalate its military involvement. Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Sunday that "we have no interest in a war in the north, we don't want to escalate the situation". He urged Hezb...
Read more

Puja Khedkar Case Prompts Changes in UPSC Application Rules

Image
 The UPSC’s decision to mandate document submission at the application stage for the 2025 Civil Services Prelims Exam follows the controversy surrounding probationary Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Puja Khedkar. Khedkar is accused of forging identity documents, misrepresenting information, and falsifying facts to gain additional attempts in the Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2022. According to reports, Khedkar allegedly submitted a fake Persons with Benchmark Disability (PwBD) certificate to claim reservation benefits. This allowed her to exceed the standard limit of nine attempts and appear for the exams a total of 12 times. The case has highlighted vulnerabilities in the existing system of document verification, prompting the UPSC to tighten its rules. By requiring candidates to submit documents such as educational qualifications, caste, and disability certificates during the initial application process, the Commission aims to curb potential misuse of the system an...
Read more

Kota suicides not linked: Supreme Court refuses to pause NEET counselling

Image
The Supreme Court on Friday said the suicides in Kota were not due to NEET-UG 2024 results, and that the petitioners seeking a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in the exam should not make such emotional arguments. NEET 2024 controversy The court's remark came while the vacation bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta took objection to a submission made by one of the counsels for petitioners, saying that students at coaching centres in Kota were dying by suicide. Remarking that the suicides in Kota were not due to NEET-UG 2024 results, Justice Nath said to the counsel, "don't make unnecessary emotional arguments here." Later, the bench also issued a notice on the pleas seeking a CBI probe. While the National Testing Agency (NTA) was directed to file a response within two weeks, other respondents (Centre) were given time until July 8, the next date of hearing. The counsel pressed that petitioners were seeking a CBI investigation into the alleged paper l...
Read more