Child victims of racist politics

I HAVE seen the procedures in place at Dublin airport for screening non-EU citizens entering Ireland from countries outside the EU.

And if I, as an EU citizen, wish to travel anywhere within the EU, I cannot do so without my passport.

Yet the Minister for Justice tells us that heavily pregnant non-nationals can simply stream into Ireland in order to give birth and claim EU citizenship for their children. If this is true, it makes a good argument for tightening the immigration procedure. It is not, in my opinion, a valid reason for diminishing our citizenship laws.