The government's position on asylum seekers is fairly plain. The first step is to minimise the numbers of people who can actually get into Ireland to claim asylum. The next step is to have the majority of asylum seekers deported. The government is currently drafting legislation to make it an offence for carriers to carry any passengers without the necessary documentation Some people who arrive on our shores are escaping torture and death and others are simply trying to escape a life of abject poverty.
Anarchists make no distinction between economic or political refugees.
Whether people are fleeing persecution or whether they are simply availing of an opportunity to have a better existence they should be welcomed to this land. Instead the Irish State treats poor strangers with open hostility. Over 30 people have been deported from the state this year already. Blessing Ogueri, for example, was taken in handcuffs to Dublin airport and put on a flight to Lagos via London. At the time of writing, nobody knows what has happened to him.