Intensification of conflicts between Ireland and England over the issue of immigrants

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Day newspaper Volt announced the intensification of conflicts between London and Dublin over the issue of the influx of refugees to Ireland in the shadow of the implementation of the anti-immigration plan of the Prime Minister of this country, Rishi Sonak, and wrote: As a member of the European Union, Ireland is extremely worried about the increase in the number of asylum seekers who They enter this country from England through open borders in the north. On the other hand, Sunak, the British Prime Minister, had already announced that he would not accept any return from Ireland. Illegal immigrants are escalating. Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee has announced that she will send up to 100 police officers to an open border with the British province of Northern Ireland. They are supposed to identify asylum seekers who can apply for residency status in a neighboring country and enter the Republic of Ireland instead. In addition, authorities must return undocumented people to the UK. The Irish Independent newspaper published this news on Tuesday.

This is despite the fact that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had previously announced that England will return from Ireland until When the European Union in turn does not take back illegal immigrants from Britain, it will not accept. England has announced. Earlier in March, a court in Dublin ruled that England is no longer a safe third country and therefore asylum seekers cannot be deported there. The reason is the British Conservative government’s controversial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda regardless of their origin.

We cannot accept the legal loophole that gives us As a country we are not allowing refugees to be returned as per the agreement we have already agreed to. He noted that there has been an agreement between the UK and Ireland on the return of migrants since Brexit, which has not yet been used. Both countries form a common travel zone and there is also an open border on the island. The aim was to prevent new conflicts in the former civil war zone of Northern Ireland after Britain leaves the European Union. Ireland is not part of the Schengen area.

Michel Martin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ireland, said earlier that the number of asylum seekers entering the country without documents has increased significantly recently. Is. This is also because of British policy on Rwanda. According to him, 80% enter the country through Northern Ireland. Prime Minister Sunak took the comments as evidence that his plan was working as a deterrent as planned.

Britain plans to In the future, deportations to Rwanda will begin. Citing UK Home Office data, The Times reported on Tuesday that 5,700 migrants had been identified. However, the whereabouts of more than 3,500 of these people are currently unknown to the authorities. But London hasn’t given up yet: Britain’s Conservative government wants to send almost 5,700 migrants to Rwanda this year. In total, tens of thousands of immigrants in this country are at risk of deportation due to this plan. Migrants to Rwanda approved. Based on this, in the future, people who entered this country irregularly, regardless of their origin and without examining their asylum applications, should be deported to Rwanda.

Migrants who arrived in Britain between January 2022 and June last year should expect their asylum claims to be deemed inadmissible and deported to Rwanda, the Home Office said. According to official statistics, during this period more than 57,000 people went to Britain in small boats from the English Channel. Rwanda is reviewed in Kigali. If accepted, the refugees will have the right to stay in this East African country and cannot return to England.

On the other hand, the opposition Labor Party believes that these measures It is a public relations campaign during the election campaign. Labour’s home affairs spokeswoman Yvette Cooper said: “The Tories are so desperate they want to send every Peruvian to Rwanda before the local elections. In the British local elections that will be held on Thursday, the Conservative Party led by Rishi Sonak is threatened with a bitter defeat.

According to official statistics, more than 57,000 people They arrived in the UK in small boats across the English Channel between January 2022 and June last year – many fleeing war and poverty in their countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

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