UCD's Dr Ebun Joseph has told the Tonight Show that believes that Ireland makes it too difficult for non-EU migrants to move here.
Addressing Peader Toibiín's recent remarks in which he stated that a debate on immigration was desirable d…
UCD's Dr Ebun Joseph has told the Tonight Show that believes that Ireland makes it too difficult for non-EU migrants to move here.
Addressing Peader Toibiín's recent remarks in which he stated that a debate on immigration was desirable despite not wanting to limit or cap immigration himself, Dr Joseph said it was fantastic to have a debate on immigration "but when you decide that the conversation we want to have is a one-sided conversation, that's where the problem is."
Dr Joseph said it wasn't only asylum seekers coming to Ireland and that she personally knew a friend from Nigeria who bought a house in Ireland "cash-outright" from money her husband earned in Nigeria and that she didn't need to secure a mortgage. She said this was proof that there are resources which migrants are bringing into Ireland.
In May, 2013, World Bank figures revealed that €468m in 'remittances' was sent from Ireland to Nigeria in 2011. That was average of more than €26,000 for each of the 17,642 Nigerian nationals in Ireland, including children.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/nigerians-send-nearly-500m-a-year-home-from-ireland-29278045.html
The Immigrant Council said organised crime gangs were making €600k per day by running an international sex trafficking network stretching from Nigeria and Cameroon to Ireland in 2015.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/gangs-take-in-600k-a-day-in-sex-trafficking-355984.html
One of largest welfare fraud cases in Ireland involved a couple who had arrived from Nigeria in 2006. The combined fraud totalled more than €400,000 and took place over a period of more than eight years.
https://www.thejournal.ie/court-social-welfare-fraud-3920312-Mar2018/
Dr Joseph continued:
"Let's be clear, Ireland is not an immigration heaven. When I mean by that is that when we talk about Fortress Europe, Ireland is a Fortress Europe. When you're non-EU, do you know how many hoops you have to jump through to get a visa to come here? Do you know how many qu..
