Arrivals and departures: we need real debate on both issues

YOUR editorial headlined ‘Immigrants and emigrants — a debate we can’t dodge any longer’ (July 10) was meritricious, dishonest and morally ambivalent in the worst possible way.

After a number of predictable, unexceptional and not very original thoughts on the evil and pain of emigration — which no one disputes — we come to the crunch in the final three paragraphs:

“In recent days we have had controversy surrounding asylum seekers in Mosney. Just yesterday we had the Supreme Court’s dismissal of Nigerian woman Pamela Izevbekhai’s appeal against her deportation. She sought to have the decision by the Minister for Justice to deport her and her two daughters to Nigeria reversed.