7,000 failed asylum seekers missing

GARDAÍ are unable to trace more than 7,000 failed asylum seekers issued with deportation orders, latest figures from the Justice Department have shown.

Gardaí have not been able to enforce 7,230 — or just over half — of the 13,765 deportation orders signed by the Minister for Justice since January 1999.

This is because the Garda National Immigration Bureau has been unable to find the subjects of the orders to deport them. They have been classified as evaders as a result.