Rules don’t permit editorialising titles, but in 2022 it was 13 people, up to 18 in 2023 and now 51 in the first half of 2024 alone.
A steep rise, yes, but a tiny fraction of the overall context.
The article doesn’t seem to state how many have been *successful* in their claims.
HibernianMetropolis on
Wasting their time, and our resources. Pretty much the only scenario in which a US citizen will qualify for asylum in Ireland is if they’re likely to be subjected to the death penalty in the US. Otherwise they’re basically guaranteed to be sent home
PoppedCork on
On what grounds?
JellyRare6707 on
Only their dregs of their society.
GerKoll on
Well….the article could at least give the reasons and if some of them are valid…. I seem to remember reading a couple years ago that Germany gave a US soldier who did not want to return to Afghanistan temporary asylum….
TheBatmanIRL on
Asylum??? Insert anecdote about the late great Hannibal Lector here.
Blackcrusader on
To be capable of claiming asylum they must be unable to be safe in any part of their country and be unable to obtain protection from the state. It’s hard to imagine any American who meets this.
GaeilgeGaeilge on
I have no issues with Americans coming here but Americans claiming asylum are taking the piss
Narwhal_2112 on
A blatant abuse of a system drawn up directly after the catastrophies of WW2 and when the world stood on the precipice of a 3rd World War.
It further highlights how farcical the Asylum System has become and makes a mockery of those fleeing actual conflicts.
The system needs a complete and radical overhaul.
Preferably Ireland pulls out of the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees and any other treaties it has signed up to, and implements its own unilateral approach to asylum.
Also failed cases like these should be made liable for any legal costs incurred when processing their applications.
RocketRaccoon9 on
Yeah not a hope any of those applicants would be granted asylum, sincerely someone from the IPO.
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Rules don’t permit editorialising titles, but in 2022 it was 13 people, up to 18 in 2023 and now 51 in the first half of 2024 alone.
A steep rise, yes, but a tiny fraction of the overall context.
The article doesn’t seem to state how many have been *successful* in their claims.
Wasting their time, and our resources. Pretty much the only scenario in which a US citizen will qualify for asylum in Ireland is if they’re likely to be subjected to the death penalty in the US. Otherwise they’re basically guaranteed to be sent home
On what grounds?
Only their dregs of their society.
Well….the article could at least give the reasons and if some of them are valid…. I seem to remember reading a couple years ago that Germany gave a US soldier who did not want to return to Afghanistan temporary asylum….
Asylum??? Insert anecdote about the late great Hannibal Lector here.
To be capable of claiming asylum they must be unable to be safe in any part of their country and be unable to obtain protection from the state. It’s hard to imagine any American who meets this.
I have no issues with Americans coming here but Americans claiming asylum are taking the piss
A blatant abuse of a system drawn up directly after the catastrophies of WW2 and when the world stood on the precipice of a 3rd World War.
It further highlights how farcical the Asylum System has become and makes a mockery of those fleeing actual conflicts.
The system needs a complete and radical overhaul.
Preferably Ireland pulls out of the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees and any other treaties it has signed up to, and implements its own unilateral approach to asylum.
Also failed cases like these should be made liable for any legal costs incurred when processing their applications.
Yeah not a hope any of those applicants would be granted asylum, sincerely someone from the IPO.
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