When a refugee is really an illegal immigrant

YOUR editorial headlined ‘Treatment of refugees is appalling’ (Irish Examiner, March 22) was inaccurate as none of the those concerned was found, according to UN standards, to be a genuine refugee.

When a refugee is really an illegal immigrant
Mon, 11 Apr, 2005 - 01:00

Yet your misleading use of the term ‘refugee’ to describe those 35 people appears a number of times in the editorial.

A more apt description would have been “unsuccessful asylum applicants” or even “illegal immigrants”.

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