Irish locals 'sprayed with PEPPER SPRAY' in migration protests as tensions RISE over migrant influx

now Rishi sunak he claims that the Rwanda plan is causing an influx of migrants into Ireland and he says that shows that the deterrent effect of his Rwanda plan is actually working the deputy Irish Premier at Michael Martin says that the UK's Asylum policy is actually driving migrants in fear of being deported to Rwanda across the border from Northern Ireland into the Republic now meanwhile there have been protests in New Town Mount Kennedy where 160 Asylum Seekers living in tents in Dublin are due to be moved to we're going to go live to Dublin now and join our reporter Doug dugie Bey who's got the latest dogie thank you very much for your time as ever how serious are these protests and how much pressure is the Irish government now under well the the Irish government has put itself under huge pressure but by uh actually sending the riot Squad in uh and the locals from uh New Town were sprayed with pepper spray now that sounds well it could have been anybody but newtone um M Kennedy is I mean the average house price there is about €300,000 some of them are as much as 5.2 million e so it is not uh your what you would say is your average right Wingers they are a very liberal Community it is a beautiful place to live it's right in the wlo mountains and this morning I was I was blown away by the amount of people that stopped their cars and told us how welcome we were there it was great that the truth was going to be told because what has happened and we have came to Dublin to actually film those tented Villages and we're going to go a bit further up towards the north for some of those there but we when we got there we thought better of getting out in filing at at at that stage because these migrants have came in I mean how many migrants are now in Ireland well there's over a million more in just 10 years and that's because we have a non-contribution welfare system and that's the same as Great Britain so you can come over here and get lots of welfare benefits but how many of them have came over because of the Rwanda deal that went through last week I would very much doubt that that is really in the mix I think that's a bit of Rishi trying to uh justify the Rwanda the bill and it's also Mio Martin the Tonisha really trying to say well it's not our fault but when you turn Security Forces on middle class liberal very well-off people and you know that changes the playing field for everyone that's there and this has been going on for years in Dublin the last two years I've been reporting on it and that has been in around areas such as the East wall fingas balmon and they are very much working class areas but these areas have not got the resources or infrastructure for taking so many more people I mean that that Convent or former home uh that has been turned into the Immigration Center uh in in New Town is right about 3 miles out of the main village and there is nothing but fields around it and there is no nothing for these young men to do that are going to be put into these immigration centers and even to get out of the village which means that they're going to be stuck in that Village and that is what's worrying the villagers there and it it looks like a bad blue for the coalition government of f Gil and Fina foil because these are people that would have formerly voted for them and this morning I was speaking to some of the residents one of them who was in tears because their whole way and culture of life has been turned upside down and on top of that there's a GAA Club the gillick athletic association is a big player in the Republic of Ireland it it's a very good organization IT Supplies uh lots of community events for the communities it really becomes a community Hub that has now been blocked off by the Gish shakana the Irish police uh in order that these immigrants may be facilitated so there is a problem here and it's going to play out in these European elections during the next couple of months thank you very much for that Doogie uh we'll come to our panel now that's do be there our in Dublin actually for userman now Emma can I read out the a couple of these comments very quickly Judith says why are the migrants intense in Dublin when in the UK they can expect five star accommodation and Paul says Ireland is bringing out emergency legislation tomorrow to return these migrants to the UK how come the Irish can do that but we in the UK cannot return migrants to France there's a real frustration here that actually the Irish government seem to have more gumption than the British yeah although the protests there have been pretty heated um look I think people have very valid concerns this is an anti-asylum Seeker if you have a valid claim but you can't just shunt people around and dump them down in communities where they don't have adequate resources there isn't anything for people to do for especially young men for for them to do people are worried about sort of imposing Mass immigration or Asylum Seekers arriving on mass in an area often moving local you know in an area where there isn't enough housing anyway where maybe education and Healthcare can't keep up and just putting people down there they're worried about cultural kind of cohesion and community community relations all of that they're worried about crime they're worried about safety but also public resources local resources it's no wonder that urban communities in Dublin and Al also these rural communities as we saw there in County Wicklow in um Mount Kennedy it looks look beautiful but I mean it's no wonder people get angry and frustrated and that then turns into conflict it turns into protest it turns into you know the guard of kind of pepper spraying local local residents I mean do you think that this is happening all over the UK it's happening up north I know someone in the aisle of sheepy they're closing down an old people's home to to house Asylum Seekers well no wonder people get angry yeah I mean Aaron do you think that that anger needs to Bear out in protest do you think actually people should be doing what the Irish are doing is that how you actually get results from a government these days well in Ireland it's a it's a real mix isn't it you got lots of peaceful protest but you also do have some really serious violence and vandalism going on um a few things I think for Ireland it's particularly difficult because a big part of their National story is immigration and of course millions of people around the world can trace their ANC ancestry back to Ireland so it's quite hard I think for the Irish politically in particular to say we closed the borders don't let people in because of course they've been championing immigration of Irish people for for more than a century that's the first point so I think it's uniquely a sort of psychological problem if you if you will for the Irish nation in a way that it might not be for Britain or for France they they've pitched themselves part of their thing about being the good guys of Europe is how open they are because they've experienced destitution poverty the Irish famine Etc so it's politically quite difficult for them now secondly and I find this intriguing some of the countries where um a lot of these people now in Ireland are coming from are places like Georgia Algeria I mean Georgia's quite a safe place I've not been but I hear it's quite a beautiful place so look I think there is clearly a need for people fleeing um Terror War you know Afghan translators who worked alongside the British army in Afghanistan during the British American occupation there they clearly won't be safe there I understand a case for them being here in the UK but somebody from Georgia that's that's not Asylum let's be honest yeah look I mean that my view just to bring this to a head my view is that actually the Asylum system is completely broken and until we fix it we need to stop it right and uh I realized that that might seem quite a radical view but uh I genuinely think we as a nation are heading down a path of Madness if we continue this we are and I don't think that sounds radical I think a lot of people would agree with you actually I think we are so overburdened at the moment that we need to at least close close the borders until we deal with what we've got yeah and then maybe start up again with a functioning home office indeed Emma wolf there and uh was Aaron bani before Emma let's now go to a break you're with me Darren GR on GB News Sunday there's Lords more coming up in a few minutes we'll be looking ahead to a huge day of football with the Premier League's top two Arsenal and Manchester City both in action this afternoon that title's in the running

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Length: 8min 43sec (523 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 28 2024