Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers MEP cautions Taoiseach Micheál Martin that the Irish government's amnesty for illegals exacerbates migration related problems in Europe and that he should look to Sweden to see the problems their amnesty created.
He tells Martin that 500 million people worldwide would like to migrate to the EU and that migration pressure is mounting. The last thing Europe needs are increased pull factors.
Martin responds that there is no amnesty for illegals in Ireland. All the govt is doing is 'regularising the undocumented'. That's totally different.
The current blanket amnesty for illegals is also open to all asylum seekers in the system. The only thing 'undocumented' about many of them is they say they've lost their passport and consequently can't be deported after failing their asylum bid.
Non-Ukraine related asylum applications are set to reach 13,000 for 2022, up from 3,408 in 2019. Roderic O'Gorman has promised them all their own homes within four months of arrival.
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