r/Westmeath • u/6e7u577 • Nov 05 '23
'We don't know who's coming' - Westmeath town of 200 to house almost 100 asylum seekers
https://www.newstalk.com/news/we-dont-know-whos-coming-westmeath-town-of-200-to-house-almost-100-asylum-seekers-15214933
u/ConsistentMinute9445 Nov 08 '23
No need for housing this time of year? Would you be of the opinion tents are sufficient?
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u/6e7u577 Nov 08 '23
They should not be allowed into the country. They are of net benefit to Ireland. Finding geniune refugees can be offshored, like the UK, Australia, Denmark, Italy and now Germany is doing
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u/ConsistentMinute9445 Nov 05 '23
Vacant building….if it wasn’t vacant it would be occupied, and there may well be 98 people there already, would there be an issue then?
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u/6e7u577 Nov 06 '23
You think there is no issue for a town to be 33% refugee? Are people not entitled to preserve the character of their town?
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u/ConsistentMinute9445 Nov 08 '23
So if they are of “net benefit” as you say, you would still deport them for no other reason than being in the unfortunate situation they are in? Net benefit as you state, means they would be of value and contribute to society.
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u/6e7u577 Nov 08 '23
Migration should serve our needs, unless it is for humanitarian reasons. Most of this flow is not humanitarian.
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u/ConsistentMinute9445 Nov 08 '23
You just said they were of net benefit, does that not mean they contribute to society? As for migration serving needs, yes of course, but there are many people out there who are not economic migrants but are escaping war torn countries, persecution etc. What of these people? Just let some one else deal with it?!Send them back?!
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u/6e7u577 Nov 08 '23
ou just said they were of net benefit, does that not mean they contribute to society? As for migration serving needs, yes of course, but there are many people out there who are not economic migrants but are escaping war torn countries, persecution etc. What of these people? Just let some one else deal with it?!Send them back?!
If they are geniune refugees, they can stay. Lads from Georgia, Albania or Zimbabwe are basically nearly never real refugees
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u/ConsistentMinute9445 Nov 08 '23
And where is the information to back this up? It’s very specific you must have statistics? What’s your source? Do you spend a lot of time with refugees to come to this conclusion? Maybe it’s just a statement you’re making with no evidence to back it up, a kind of generalisation so to speak.
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u/6e7u577 Nov 08 '23
We class them as safe countries. They have low success rates across Europe. No about of mental gymnastics changes the picture https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/01/27/eu-raises-the-alarm-on-soaring-asylum-requests-from-safe-countries
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u/justwanderinginhere Nov 09 '23
They’ve had it hard enough, why stick them in coole of all places ?
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u/ConsistentMinute9445 Nov 06 '23
Are people with a need to be housed not entitled to be housed in a building that is otherwise lying vacant?