Refugee crisis has not eased
AMID the analysis of the recent local and European elections, the decline of immigration as an election issue in Ireland has gone unremarked upon.
Until relatively recently, questions about the growing influx of non-Irish workers were causing politicians to shuffle nervously in their boots on the campaign trail. The general election year of 2007 saw approximately 151,000 people migrate into Ireland. The vast majority of these people were EU citizens, while 3,985 were asylum seekers.
