Muslim Economic Migrants in Ireland and an Anguished Cry from Fintan O’Sullivan

The Irish fought fiercely for their independence from Great Britain, and many died in the doing — the names of Michael Collins, Michael Fitzgerald, and Liam Lynch come swimmingly to mind as casualties of the war against the Sassenach – but now, a different threat to Irish independence has appeared. A seemingly unstoppable flow of new “asylum seekers,” who in reality are overwhelmingly Muslim economic migrants, is arriving unbidden into the Old Sod, and it is proving very hard either to prevent these people from entering the country, or once they are in the country, to deport them. More on this problem can be found here: “Irish councilor slams ‘cash cow’ immigration policy, claims politicians are afraid to speak out for fear of being labeled ‘racist,’” by Thomas Brooke, Remix News, June 19, 2023:

An Irish politician has called out the government’s immigration and asylum policy, declaring the system not fit for purpose and suggesting a number of his colleagues agree with him in private but are scared to go public with their concerns for fear of being labeled “far right” or “racist.”

The same fear of being accused of “racism” or of “Islamophobia” has kept many politicians, not just in Ireland but all over Europe, from discussing truthfully what the large-scale presence of Muslims has meant for the indigenous people of their countries. They would rather cling to power, it seems, than have a rational discussion with the public about the Muslim immigration crisis. But their fears may be unfounded; all over Europe more and more people, alarmed by what they have seen and experienced, are ever more disenchanted with the Muslim migrants in their midst, who they can see use up so much of the government’s social spending, by taking advantage of every possible benefit their welfare states provide – free or greatly subsidized housing, free health care, free education, unemployment benefits (without needing to have been previously employed), family allowances, and more. In Ireland, the government has been spending so much on these immigrants who appear in no hurry get jobs, that there is ever less to spend on the Irish aged and the Irish poor.

Sinn Féin councilor Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin, [Fintan O’Sullivan], who sits on Wexford County Council, voiced his concerns during a council meeting to discuss the future of Slaney Manor in the area, a grand estate and former wedding venue that was purchased in April by a company contracted to provide migrant accommodation in Ireland.

The estate is expected to be used imminently as an emergency migrant center, accommodating up to 213 people.

All over Ireland and Great Britain, these immigrants have been slotted, crazily, maddeningly, into housing at luxury hotels — some even five-star – and grand private estates where hundreds at a time can be accommodated. In some small towns, these Muslim immigrants fill up the one luxury hotel in a tourist town, and having nothing to do, loiter about on the streets, in a menacing manner, occasionally making comments to, and aggressive passes at, the local girls who are made distinctly uneasy. The tourist trade starts to fizzle. The locals who depend on it are despairing. Some of those Muslims supplement their benefits through shoplifting and street robberies. No one can figure out why the government, instead of giving them these luxury accommodations, doesn’t build camps consisting of spartan barracks, or tents, to provide shelter but nothing more, as these “asylum seekers” wait for their cases to be heard.

Ireland has traditionally been a welcoming country to immigrants, but those previous immigrants arrived in much smaller numbers, and were overwhelmingly fellow Europeans, products of the same civilization, and mostly of the same religion, as the native Irish.

Some councilors lamented the lack of public consultation over the plans [to place immigrants at Slaney Manor]; they suggested that local residents have been silenced and their concerns over changes to their local community are being sidelined.

In the last year, there have been demonstrations in Ireland against the government’s failure to adequately deal with the new immigrants, who are clearly not fleeing persecution or war but intent on reaping the most benefits they can from whatever Infidel countries they manage to end up in. People have been in an uproar that these so-called “refugees” are bussed into reception centers in the dead of night so as to avoid crowds forming to protest. More on that unseemly stealth can be found here.

“A lot of communities feel unheard and like they have no control of their local areas,” Cllr Ó Súilleabháin told colleagues. “They’re told they don’t have any say. Aren’t we supposed to have some say over what happens in Wexford? People feel that decisions are being imposed upon them.”

It’s not just people at the county level in Ireland who feel left out of decision-making about immigrants. It’s at the national level as well. The EU’s attempts to dictate to its members how many immigrants each must take as its quota has led to victories for anti-immigrant parties in several EU countries recently, including – just now – Finland. In Germany, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and Austria, the anti-immigrant parties — or more exactly, anti-Muslim immigrant parties — have steadily gained in strength. Their rise is now as inexorable as the rise in the number of Muslim economic migrants, whose presence has led to those parties’ success.

He explained that 20,000 people arrived under schemes organized by the International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) last year. “We’re being fed this narrative that everyone is fleeing war and persecution and nobody wants to be seen as being against that.”

Even where there may be “war and persecution” in some Muslim lands, that is no reason for the world’s Infidels to take on the burden, and expense, of providing refuge and succor to Muslims. After all, there are 57 Muslim countries. Some of them are among the richest in the world – Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., Qatar, Kuwait – though they did nothing to earn those riches. The trillions of dollars they have received (the Saudi royal family alone has a fortune of $1.4 trillion), only because of an accident of geology, could certainly allow them to welcome into their countries, and support, millions of fellow Muslims who now are heading toward Europe. They would no longer have to suffer the indignity of living on the largesse of Infidels, who are “the most vile of living creatures.” No one can explain why we, the world’s Infidels, owe any duty to Muslims, who obviously do not wish us well. And if our countries need workers, there are hundreds of millions of potential migrants, Christians from South America and the Philippines, Hindus and Sikhs from India, who are eager to work, and who have not been raised, unlike Muslims, to despise the indigenous peoples — the infidels — of Europe. We have a perfect right to keep out immigrants who have been raised to hate us.

The Sinn Féin councilor explained that 40 percent of new arrivals in recent times have come to Ireland without any formal documents, “so we know nothing.” He further suggested there is “a lot of emotional blackmail going on and we have no say in the matter.”

Those undocumented immigrants often destroy, just before setting off for Europe, what identifying papers they may possess. There are several reasons. Some of them want to present themselves as minors, who are automatically taken in, even though we know that large numbers of Muslim “minors” have turned out to be 25, 30, even 35 years old. But without a document, it’s harder to prove their real age. Another reason is to hide their real countries of origin. It’s harder for someone coming from Jordan or Algeria or Morocco to claim to be fleeing “war or persecution” than someone who claims to be coming from Syria or Yemen. Without documents, the would-be “asylum seeker” can more easily claim to be fleeing a war-torn country, or a despotic regime.

Following the meeting, Cllr Ó Súilleabháin issued a staunch defense of his comments, calling the government’s asylum policy a “cash cow” that has enabled scores of undocumented migrants, many of whom have arrived in Ireland “for economic reasons,” to claim asylum….

O’Sullivan is absolutely correct: the asylum policy is a “cash cow” not for the Irish, but for those migrants, who once in the country, start receiving at once that cornucopia of benefits which impelled them in the first place to head for Ireland, and once there claim to be “sylum seekers.” But very few of them are fleeing war or persecution. They are economic migrants, ready to take advantage of everything the Irish government has on offer.

In March, government data obtained via a Freedom of Information request revealed that 84 percent of asylum seekers whose applications had been rejected over the past five years had not been deported and currently have an “unknown status.”

Even when the Irish government gets around, at great trouble and expense, to studying the applications for asylum, and finally turns down some of them, that is not the end of the matter. 84% of those ordered to be deported simply show their contempt for Irish law by refusing to leave; they live under the radar, working off the books for some unscrupulous employer, or in some cases living by theft, Some are caught and go to jail, where they receive better treatment than they would as free men in the hell-holes from which they originate. To investigate each case, to find these people who are avoiding deportation, and to again try to eject them from the country, involves still more complication as legal niceties must be respected. The government can’t simply put these economic migrants on a boat or a plane and ship them back to their countries of origin. Or at least, until now the Irish government has been unwilling to do so. Perhaps it’s time that the countries of Europe adopted new, much harsher measures – not just issuing orders for deportation, but also enforcing them by taking Muslim migrants into custody, and sending them back, without any further legal folderol, to their countries of origin, with no possibility of appeal.

Despite deportation orders being issued upon the rejection of the applications, 3,887 of the 4,631 individuals had not left the country, either voluntarily or involuntarily.

Just 314 of those deportation orders were enforced by the Irish state. That makes the policy a farce, and knowledge of how easy it is either to be accepted as an “asylum seeker” or simply to stay on even when deportation orders have been issued, is what makes Ireland such a target of Muslim economic migrants.

Earlier this month, Mattie McGrath, an independent MP called for a referendum on immigration after recent polling revealed that 75 percent of Irish people think the country is taking in too many refugees.

Ten years ago, or even five, a majority of the Irish people were still supporting taking in those who claimed to be “asylum seekers.” But experience has taught them many things. First, they realize that these people are not “refugees” fleeing war or persecution, but economic migrants seeking the benefits the state provides by posing as “refugees.” The Irish have been snookered, and three-quarters of them now are against taking in not “refugees” in general, but Muslim migrants posing as refugees from persecution and war. Second, the Irish can’t afford supporting these economic migrants any longer. The country is not rich. It has 12,000 of its own homeless to support, and hundreds of thousands of others who have shelter but are otherwise living close to the poverty level.

“This is total open borders. We have 12,000 homeless ourselves. And the money we are spending on this situation is unbelievable,” he [McGrath] told the Gript media outlet.

“Under the surface, people are being silenced. Cancel culture. The national media is just disgraceful, they’ve all bought into this disastrous policy of flooding our country, changing our culture, and not having space or room, and not looking after properly the genuine refugees taken in.”

The “genuine refugees” to whom O’Sullivan is referring are those from Ukraine. So much of the money allocated to refugee relief already goes to Muslim migrants, leaving less for the Ukrainians. But this is not something that is talked about. How many people are prepared to forthrightly distinguish between Muslim and non-Muslim migrants? And though Islam is not a race, making such a distinction will promptly be labelled “racist.”

O’Sullivan’s remarks on Muslim economic immigrants in Ireland – a real cri de coeur — has been getting attention on social media. He may only be a councillor in Country Wexford instead of a member of the Parliament, but many are as outraged, and despairing, as he is about the immigrant problem. And they should be. Neither Fianna Fáil nor Fine Gael, though both are seen as center-right parties, have spoken up about the consequences of Muslim immigration. The National Party, alas, which has been “anti-immigrant” – which I take to mean is “anti-Muslim immigrant” – also has some unpleasant white-nationalist baggage. What is needed is a push from within one of the two main parties, to turn the trimmers out. And then to stop the invasion of the Muslim economic migrants who have done so much, throughout Europe, to make life for the indigenous non-Muslims more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous, than it would be without that invasion.