Dismantling of a camp in the city center of Dublin: 200 asylum seekers, who had previously been sleeping in tents for several months, were transferred this Wednesday morning aboard buses to accommodation outside the capital. A massive operation, in the wake of the new British migration policy: the Rwanda plan. The threat of deportation to Rwanda would push undocumented immigrants to seek refuge in the nearest country, Ireland, instead of remaining in Britain.
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With our correspondent in Dublin, Clemence Pénard
Barriers and police officers blocking the road, in front of the International Protection Office. It was there, in a tent on the sidewalk, that Pirsami, originally from Türkiye.
“ Nowhere is we safe, nowhere can we start our lives, he laments. The plan Rwanda is racist ! You send me to another continent, without my opinion, you force me! Seeking asylum is not a crime. I’m afraid of the government. What happened here was a government decision! »
According to the Irish authorities, 90% of recent arrivals of undocumented immigrants are via the border with the British province ofNorth Ireland.
Gary Daly is a lawyer and he defends the reception of migrants. “ We expect to see many more people telling us they were in Britain, he said, but they had to leave for fear of being sent to Rwanda! There was recently a decision by the High Court of Justice in Ireland, who considered Great Britain a “dangerous country” to send asylum seekers back to, precisely because of this Rwanda plan! And that’s going to put the Irish government in a very difficult position. »
Prime Minister Simon Harris wants to legislate urgently, to be able to send migrants back to the United Kingdom.
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