The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform in the US is urging the country’s 50,000 undocumented Irish not to panic about President Trump’s clampdown on immigration — as it will only impact undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records.

The number of foreigners deported from Ireland last year soared by 50% to 428.

The original wording of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic guarantees fundamental rights and promises to “cherish all the children of the nation equally”.

A conference later today will call for the regularisation of thousands of undocumented people living in Ireland and will hear the majority are working and have been living here for more than five years.

The au pair awarded €9,000 against the couple she worked for in a landmark ruling by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is set to take a case against her subsequent host family.

Migrants Rights Centre Ireland has said that the high cost of childcare has contributed to the bad treatment and working conditions of au pairs here.

Community and voluntary sector organisations supporting some of the most disadvantaged in society are facing a difficulty in maintaining services without an immediate improvement in funding mechanisms.

A sizeable majority of Irish people are supportive of undocumented immigrants being allowed to live and work in Ireland.

Thousands of au pairs working in households nationwide are being severely exploited, working long hours in sometimes hostile conditions for less than the minimum wage, according to research which shows the extent of the problem.

Regularising the position of up to 26,000 undocumented migrants would potentially generate €185m for the State over five years, according to a support agency.

A victim of domestic labour exploitation had told her story to Jehovah’s Witnesses who came to the door of her employer, eventually triggering her release, a conference on human trafficking heard yesterday.

‘Turn Off the Red Light’ campaign aims to criminalise the purchase of consensual sex but is flawed in its assumptions, writes Mick Wallace.

The Government has been accused of "failing" domestic workers falling prey to exploitation by not ratifying laws aimed at securing their rights.

Campaigners have claimed 24 Asian nationals jailed for cannabis cultivation in recent years are potential victims of human trafficking.

Victims of slavery are being left in limbo and failed by the State, campaigners have claimed.

Foreign workers are more likely to take a claim for unfair dismissal against their employer than their Irish counterparts, according to new research on the rulings of the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT).

Changes to college fee arrangements for migrant students have been welcomed but campaign groups say hundreds will still be excluded by unaffordable charges despite having been educated in Ireland.

Time is running out for the Government to help hundreds of migrant students facing enormous international student fees at college, many of whom are already Irish citizens.

Amnesty International and migrant rights groups have urged the Government to step up plans to close a loophole which means as many as 24,000 undocumented foreign workers have little recourse in cases of exploitation.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has asked his officials to review the situation facing the children of non-EU migrant workers blocked from the same financial supports as other students attending college.

IN a country laden down with debt, Muhammad Younis feels the weight as much as anyone. Worse again, he doesn’t owe a penny.

HUNDREDS of undocumented migrants and their families marched on Leinster House at the weekend to highlight the plight of an estimated 30,000 foreign nationals who are here without legal papers.

GARDAÍ have investigated 47 cases of alleged human trafficking for labour exploitation — but no prosecutions have been taken.

AN award-winning restaurant has yet to pay a migrant worker the €86,000 it owes him after being found guilty of gross exploitation.

A GOVERNMENT minister has pledged to plug any legislative gaps to protect workers following concerns raised after the discovery of an alleged slave camp in Britain.

THE idea that anyone should be held in what amounts to slavery in a modern society is appalling.

WORKERS are being held in slave conditions in Irish homes and businesses because of a lack of legislation to either protect them or prosecute their enslavers.

THE visit of Barack Obama gives hope to the undocumented living here and in the US, the Migrant Rights Centre of Ireland has said.

ETHNIC profiling, which is a form of racial discrimination, is being facilitated by the Irish state, a report by the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) has found.

AS our collective history reminds us almost too often life as an emigrant is never easy.

Foreign nationals in Ireland are being singled out for discrimination, according to a new report by the Migrant Rights Centre.

The Government's plan to cut the minimum wage by €1 or 12% to €7.65 has come in for criticism.

MIGRANT workers should have the right to change employers without fear of losing their work permit, according a new poll.

ALMOST two-thirds of people believe migrants here on work permits should be allowed to change their employer without condition, according to a new opinion poll.

A CALL by Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahy for a relaxation of labour law inspections has been condemned as raising questions about the Government’s commitment to workers’ rights and fairness.

THE European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) is among a number of groups which have strongly criticised proposals from Minster for Social Protection Eamon O Cuív to implement a ‘social employment’ scheme which would commit up to 10,000 job seekers to 20 hours community work or face having their unemployment benefits cut.

THE Government is facing renewed calls to change the Irish work permit system with the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) launching a campaign calling for immigrant workers to have the right to change employer.

A protest is being held outside Supermacs in Dublin today organised by the Restaurant Workers Action Group

SEVERAL thousand illegal immigrants open to immediate expulsion are to be allowed stay in the country for at least four months under legislation published yesterday.

THE Migrants Rights Centre of Ireland (MRCI) has claimed foreign- national restaurant workers are being paid as little as €2 per hour while working up to 75 hours of week.

More than half of all migrant workers earn less than the minimum wage, a new report revealed today.

IMMIGRANTS and students seeking to study in Ireland have been hit with a 50% increase in the cost of registration with the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB).