Immigration Bill plays into hands of traffickers

THE Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform proposes to introduce fines of €1,500 for anyone caught carrying an undocumented migrant into the State.

This provision is included in the Immigration Bill 2002 which was scheduled to go before the Cabinet yesterday before being rushed through the Seanad today.

Our media have given sympathetic coverage in recent days to the first anniversary of the suffocation of eight Turkish people in a container that arrived in Rosslare.

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