Gardaí to clamp down on bogus asylum seekers

FURTHER arrests are expected in a garda clampdown on bogus asylum seekers, following the detention of 17 people at the weekend.

The National Bureau of Immigration said the detainees, from west Africa and eastern Europe, were refused asylum but applied again under different names.

Gardaí said the moves were part of an operation to halt a bid to sabotage the country's asylum process through the submission of bogus applications from foreign nationals.