Ireland, We Hardly Knew Ye

 

The Irish immigration situation is ironic. The UK voted to leave the EU mostly because the common people were alarmed at the levels of immigration, in particular “asylum seekers.” They felt their culture was being lost. It was urgent to take control of their own immigration policy. They could not so long as they belonged to the EU. 

Ireland cut up a fuss, demanding that the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland be kept open and unrestricted—they did not want a more divided Ireland.

Now the Irish general public is also up in arms. They fought Britain for centuries to establish their independence. And now they are being colonized by mass waves of foreigners? How is this different from what Cromwell did?

And Britain has begun to take command of their asylum seeker problem, by shipping them off to Rwanda. So, unsurprisingly, the asylum seekers are taking advantage of that open border to flood into Ireland, to avoid deportation back to Africa. 

Putting Ireland on the brink of a general uprising.

This is awkward for the Irish. They are instinctively left-wing, anti-British, and welcoming to outsiders. But they seem to have reached a limit. 

So now what?

The leaders of Europe as a whole are going to need to follow something like the Rwanda model. Popular opposition to mass immigration has become a central issue in many countries now, in Sweden and Denmark, in Italy, in Greece, in France. As it was and continues to be in the US as early as 2016, leading to the election of Trump.

It was a bad idea. It needs to be reversed. The question is, will the EU care enough about Ireland\’s problem to do anything quickly enough to save that nation.

I fear Ireland may have to act unilaterally, perhaps in defiance of the EU, and take the consequences. If the borer is to remain “soft’, they must have the same asylum policies as the UK. They must negotiate their own flights to Rwanda.