Civil rights group urge No vote in referendum

VOTERS should think of the Filipino nurses and the Indian doctors who care for them in hospital before they consider stripping migrants of their rights, a lobby group said yesterday.

Furthermore, voters should think of anyone they know who migrated to the United States and benefited from its citizenship laws, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) said.

Launching their No campaign ahead of the forthcoming citizenship referendum, the ICCL said that, if the referendum were passed, it would create an underclass of Irish-born children whose parents were non-nationals.