Why criticism of our immigration policy is taboo

IT WAS not surprising that the Afghan asylum seekers in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin should have used aggressive tactics in their demands for instant refugee status as similar tactics were successful in Belgium recently.

The hunger strikers were portrayed by sections of the media, humanitarian groups and the far left as victims of an inhumane asylum system. This was not because they were right but because they were vulnerable.

Therefore, critical questioning of their tactics was viewed as attacking them and those who did so were vilified as oppressors.