Call for refugee checks before they enter Ireland

The Immigration Control Platform is calling on the Minister for Justice, John O’Donoghue, to put measures in place whereby a person’s need for asylum would be determined before he or she enters the country.

The Platform’s PRO, Aine Ni Chonaill was speaking at the launch of a postcard campaign which calls on the minister to make such changes.

At a press conference today, the Immigration Control Platform claimed the 1961 Geneva Convention on Refugees was not intended to function as it does in today’s world.

It says the Convention is flawed, because it puts no restriction on the numbers claiming asylum.

It also makes it impossible to deport all but a few of the vast majority who fail to get asylum, thus creating a de facto open border policy, the Immigration Platform says.

Aine Ni Chonaill adds that the Convention is a farce because the government now allowed their countries to be openly invaded.

They have printed postcards that call on John O’Donoghue to determine a genuine asylum seeker before he or she enters the country.