Other routes by sea and air are not as simple. Although Britain and Ireland have maintained a common travel area for the last century that gives British and Irish citizens the freedom to live and work in each other’s countries, police-run passport controls to check non-possessive rights are still in place in the UK. Flights are operated on the Irish end of the line. -Admission to citizens of the European Economic Area. Once Irish authorities began to tighten rules on allowing UK asylum seekers onto planes bound for Ireland, crossing from Northern Ireland by vehicle or train became increasingly popular.
Over the past year, amid a national crisis in housing supply and affordability, Ireland’s Department of Integration and the Office for International Protection have struggled to source adequate shelter for the 100,000 Ukrainian war refugees and at least 30,000 asylum seekers already here. . A series of derelict properties have been earmarked for development as refuge centers Burnt down in suspected arson attacks by angry locals, Civil servants hard-pressed to deal with the consequences expect the pressure to continue to grow, perhaps to extremes.
“This is a madhouse,” said an International Security Office worker, smoking outside the office on Mount Street in Dublin’s Georgian centre. Nearby, two groups of men – mostly Somalis on the left, Nigerians on the right – sat on the sidewalks near rows of tents that had been their home for weeks. “We have no room to house them all and more will keep coming. this has no end.”
Beginning a year earlier, a tent city was allowed to spring up on the sidewalks and streets below Mount Street, outside the International Security Office. The slum eventually expanded to the headquarters of Fianna Fáil, a government party, and was growing closer to the local European Commission office and Simon Harris’ government building base in Ireland. new prime minister,
But at his weekly Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Harris approved an operation Mount Street to remove refugees, primarily to a commandeered conference center on the outskirts of town, and to a more remote army-style campground with tents for up to 12 people.
At dawn Wednesday, a fleet of buses and taxis carried about 300 people to those emergency facilities, while sanitation workers wearing hazmat suits cleared sidewalks of public urination and trash that had piled up for months. Police erected barriers of 1,000-kilogram concrete blocks where the tents were set up and told refugees they would face immediate arrest if they tried to camp on Mount Street again.