VIEW POINT: I don’t know if Ryanair fly to Tirana in Albania but I do know that they fly to Dubrovnik in the former Yugoslavia which is not that far away. In fact yesterday they were advertising a one way ticket to Dubrovnik for €60. According to the British Home Office it costs £22,000 per person to fly a person whose asylum application has been rejected one way to Tirana. Deporting migrants does not come cheap, a one way ticket for a single failed asylum seeker to Mozambique cost the Irish taxpayer €18,758 according to a freedom of information request. The flights are all business class and the failed asylum seeker is accompanied by two members of the Gardai. But at least they are scheduled flights. In the Uk the Home Office often charters entire aeroplanes. An Airbus 321 can accommodate 220 passengers but only 47 failed asylum seekers as each failed asylum seeker must have three escorts to ensure that they behave safely in the aircraft. In addition there are other support and airline staff needed. Deportation comes with a heavy price tag. It is also uncertain. In a recent case a person undergoing deportation had to be returned following a successful court challenge. The government has promised deportation flights later on this year. They mentioned that smaller aircraft may be used for people needing individual deportation who may be violent, they need to be surrounded by more muscle. What is disconcerting is the simple fact that after the deportation is carried out the unvetted migrant just takes another flight back again. Some people don’t take no for an answer.
Deportations usually have to go through a hub airport as we don’t have direct flights to the destinations that the migrant is being returned to. That of course increases the price and of course there is the overnight stay for the escort staff. So far all deportations from Ireland have used scheduled flights but a specialist provider has been contracted for. This is an area that is both commercially and politically sensitive so don’t expect too much information to be disclosed. In the UK many unforeseen problems arose from trade union agitation against the flights leading to a difficulty in refuelling aircraft. In 2021 a charter flight to Jamaica was scheduled for 37 migrants but left with only four migrants as 33 got last minute reprieves. Clearly with so much uncertainty the government tries to come up with a different policy and that is called ‘citizenship ceremonies’. If you can’t get rid of them just regularise it by giving them an Irish passport.
I am sorry to announce that we now have over 6,400 new citizens since last Thursday. I wonder who they will be voting for. This country is slipping away from us, betrayed by the political class who are self seeking and sold to the globalist agenda, an agenda that doesn’t tolerate nation states. Last year 30,000 people were ‘awarded’ citizenship, in 2023 the number was 20,000 and in 2022 the number was 10,000. We can see the way the statistics are going.Just imagine if all of them had to be deported, it is easier to just throw a passport at them. The almost 1,000 ‘new citizens’ from India must be laughing. Choose Dublin or the Punjab, it’s an easier life in Dublin if you want to escape your past, nobody will ask you.
People who want to change their identity by becoming fake citizens of another country may be fleeing an unsavoury past. We simply don’t know, in most cases we have no way of checking. But our government is happy to take a chance rather than do due diligence which may be almost impossible to do.Still that is no excuse for recklessly throwing passports at people who may pose a substantial danger. The easiest target to realistically achieve is to encourage all migrants to self deport. This is achievable by cutting all supports for migrants. Withdraw accommodation offers and all allowances and benefits and migrants will simply do what migrants do, move on. There would be no need to charter a single aircraft or buy a single ticket. Keep our people safe and encourage self deportation of all migrants.
