Irish Examiner view: A map to fix a dangerous, cruel immigration system

Our shameful, cruel direct provision system is not fit for purpose. 

When the wonderful Irish American Tim O'Brien recorded The Crossing in 1999, he told the story of Irish flight to America as graphically as any warts-and-all historian might dare. 

One song, 'Lost Little Children', tells of children arriving on an American pier expecting to meet parents who had left Sligo some years earlier. O'Brien does not say if those parents arrived or not but he leaves a sinister hint that they might not have.