Letters to the Editor: Don’t blame refugees for State’s failed policies

Asylum seekers queueing outside the Refugee Application Centre on Mount Street, Dublin.

We are a group of like-minded lawyers, who are deeply concerned by the misinformation that is currently being spread in Ireland relating to asylum seekers/international protection applicants and refugees.

The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, also known as the 1951 Refugee Convention, was codified on 28 July 1951 and extended by the Rome Convention of 1967. A person has the legal right to apply for asylum (what is now termed “international protection”)