Month: June 2023

Ireland needs a referendum on immigration after 960% increase in new arrivals in one year, says Irish MP

Ireland has seen mass protests against soaring immigration numbers over the last year.

An independent Irish lawmaker has called for a referendum on immigration after recent polling revealed 75 percent of Irish people think the country is taking in too many refugees.

Speaking to Irish media outlet, Gript, Mattie McGrath TD believes the public concern on the issue is too great to ignore.

“The government must consult the people, I say by way of a referendum,” McGrath, who sits as an independent in the Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament, told the site.

“We want a proper open debate on this. We want an unhindered, unfettered media and we don’t want hate speech to be dangled in front of us when we talk about issues that are affecting our families, our grandchildren, and our generations to come,” he added.

Polling conducted by Red C for The Business Post last month revealed three in four Irish citizens think “the number of refugees Ireland is taking in is now too many.” Just 19 percent disagreed with the statement.

Supporters of the mainstream political parties, including 74 percent of Fianna Fáil voters and 70 percent of Fine Gael voters were in agreement with the statement. These are the two largest parties in the Irish coalition government, which has overseen the largest influx of immigration into the country on record.

Meanwhile, 76 percent of respondents said they appreciate the public anger currently felt about asylum seekers being moved into local communities at rapid pace.

“I’m not surprised,” McGrath said commenting on the poll.

“This is total open borders. We have 12,000 homeless ourselves. And the money we are spending on this situation is unbelievable.

“Under the surface, people are being silenced. Cancel culture. The national media is just disgraceful, they’ve all bought into this disastrous policy of flooding our country, changing our culture, and not having space or room, and not looking after properly the genuine refugees taken in.”

The Irish lawmaker cited Dr. Mary Ryan, a leading consultant endocrinologist who has previously raised concerns about the chaotic policy currently being implemented by the Irish government. Dr. Ryan said last week that many Irish citizens, including the elderly, were being forgotten about and need greater care.

“Our elderly – I feel very strongly about the fact that we are not looking after out elderly very well. We forget that the people who are now in their 80s and 90s worked in England the majority sent back money to rear the young kids at home, we are not looking after them properly. All of these needs need to be addressed.”

She accused Ireland’s leader Leo Varadkar of “not listening to people.”

“Yes, we want to help out but at the same time we don’t want 12,000 homeless. That has to be looked after, and there is extra pressure on society, there needs to be a proper strategy. Are you going to get more doctors, teachers, nurses? This is a democracy.”

A total of 84,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Ireland since the outbreak of the war in their home country, while another 15,000 asylum seekers new asylum applications from other nations were recorded in 2022 alone, according to The Business Post.

The number of asylum applications was more than six times higher than the previous year, while immigration into Ireland also hit a 15-year high in 2022.

And those individuals who are refused asylum are not leaving the country. Data provided to NewsTalk following a Freedom of Information request showed that of the 4,631 deportation orders issued to failed asylum seekers between 2018 and 2022, the Office of the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) enforced just 314 orders, or 7 percent, while the Department of Justice provided assistance in 430 other cases (9 percent) for people who voluntarily left Irish territory. The rest remain in the country.

The social tension brought about by the influx of mass immigration has been palpable and residents across Ireland have turned out to protest the effect the new arrivals are having on the public services in their local communities.

In an op-ed for Remix News in February, Hermann Kelly, the founder and president of the Irish Freedom Party, wrote:

We were not put on Earth to provide free housing, healthcare, and education to the rest of the world. Ireland is more than a wet rock in the middle of the Atlantic, full of rootless, nation-less consumers and producers. No. Ireland is our home, not an economic hostel. We are Irish, we are a people and a nation, bound by history and culture, by faith and by family to this land. We are a nation, not a colony, and we will not allow a second plantation of Ireland to take place.

https://rmx.news/migrant-crisis/ireland-needs-a-referendum-on-immigration-after-960-increase-in-new-arrivals-in-one-year-says-irish-mp/

NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls for illegal border crossers to be sheltered in private homes

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By Monica Showalter

How does this sound for an inviting proposition?

According to the New York Post: 

Mayor Eric Adams now wants to start paying every day New Yorkers to shelter migrants in their own homes – as the Big Apple struggles to find beds for the thousands of asylum seekers still flooding into the city.

In his latest attempt to battle the ongoing migrant crisis, Adams on Monday floated a half baked “private residence” plan, which could possibly see local homeowners getting compensation to put up asylum seekers.

Hizzoner put forward the proposal as he revealed religious leaders had agreed to start housing adult male migrants overnight at 50 places of worship scattered across the five boroughs next month.

“There are residents who are suffering right now because of economic challenges. They have spare rooms. They have locales,” the mayor said, arguing his private residence proposal could put money back in the pockets of taxpayers.

He sounds like he thinks this was a one-off natural disaster. Actually, this is an extended problem which he’s failed to solve because he refuses to solve it.

Instead of demanding that Joe Biden enforce the border, end catch-and-release, and put a stop to abuse of U.S. asylum laws, he’s happy to be left holding the bag for Joe Biden’s open borders; forced to house and feed the invaders with no perceivable benefit to his city.

Already he’s spent $4.3 billion on them — and all he’s got is more migrants.

Instead of demanding that New York’s city council drop its absurdly generous “right to shelter” law, he’s now asking New York’s taxpayers to take care of the problem in their homes, as if resolving the housing problem this way wouldn’t encourage more illegal migrants to come to New York City, which it will.

He’s tried many workarounds around this problem of tens of thousands of migrants flooding his city with their hands out — from shipping the migrants to other cities in New York state, to calling for more federal funding to compensate the city for its self-imposed “right to shelter” free housing for illegally present foreigners; to housing the migrants in five-star hotels (which has battered the tax base); to moving the migrants to warehouse dockyard housing; to moving the migrants into public school space for housing — and not once does he imagine that maybe this willingness to be the patsy for Irresponsible Joe and the clowns on the New York city council is the actual root of the problem.

Nor does he propose to ask the migrants to pay for their own housing, which is what everyone else does who travels to a foreign country. The migrants currently in New York have already demonstrated that they have plenty of money in the products they purchase, while studies have shown that the people who migrate for economic reasons are typically members of their countries’ lower middle class, rather than the poorest people.

Now he’s proposing to drop the problem onto the laps of New Yorkers themselves, on the grounds that many have spare bedrooms in their homes to house strangers. 

And stranger is right. By their very nature, illegal immigrants are unvetted foreigners. We’ve already seen that some are flash mob criminals, raiding Macys on one of their excursions.

We’e also seen how they treat New York’s five-star hotel rooms, trashing them like rock stars, apparently valuing the rooms for about as much as they paid for them.

Sure, some of the migrants may be ethical and industrious immigrants whose asylum claims are valid. But it’s obvious that many are not. They are products of the slums of places such as Caracas and San Pedro Sula, with full underclass values. 

Which would probably present quite a risky deal for New Yorkers who might take Adams up on his offer to house the migrants for the city.

Will they be on their own if their homes get robbed by the migrants? Will the city pay for property damage brought on by migrants bringing propane stoves in the bedrooms and other fire-hazard activity that’s already been seen in the five-star hotel rooms? What happens if the migrants turn the homes into a trash heap and refuse to clean up after themselves? What happens if the stipend paid by the city is not enough to cover the damage?

Given the entitlement mentality seen in some of the migrants such as the Venezuelans who recently demanded free permanent housing in New York, it could get even riskier than monetary damage. What happens when the migrants refuse to leave the private homes, and insist on staying permanently? What happens if the migrants demand squatting rights on the private homes, knowing that the laws and the prosecutors will protect them?

Just the example of parents of public school students protesting Adams’ use of public school gymnasiums to house migrants pretty well tells us what the public response is likely to be to this proposal by Adams.

Many observers, on Twitter and even at the New York Post, have asked Adams if he’s got some spare bedrooms at Gracie Mansion to start.

In other words, You First.

That won’t happen, and this plan to house the migrants in private homes probably won’t be met with open arms either.

What Adams needs to do is take a good look at the problem, which isn’t housing, it’s federal and local policy. New York City evolved the way it did because of market forces, buttress by rule of law. Migrants and their government enablers know no law, nor do they pay attention to market forces. That leaves Adams with the problem. Maybe he should wake up.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/nyc_mayor_eric_adams_calls_for_illegal_border_crossers_to_be_sheltered_in_private_homes.html

Germany: Lesbian-only retirement apartment building approved with subsidized rent in Berlin city center

The 72-room apartment building will be exclusively reserved for lesbian or bisexual senior citizens.

A housing association in Berlin has announced it will soon begin construction on a social housing project in the heart of the city exclusively for female senior citizens who identify as lesbian or bisexual.

The complex will comprise an eight-story building with 72 apartments “in the best inner-city location.” It will also have a cultural center, a neighborhood café, consultation rooms and event rooms.

The project is a collaboration between Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte (WBM) state-owned housing association and the Rad und Tat (RuT) lesbian initiative, which will open an office in the new complex.

Residential units will be available to senior homosexual females only at a subsidized rate to allow “lesbians and queer women to lead a good life and enjoy their old age in a non-discriminatory and neighborly environment,” according to a WBM press release.

Subsidized rents will start from just €6.90 per square meter, considerably less than the average rent in the central area of Berlin of €20 per square meter, according to the rent index cited by the Junge Freiheit news outlet.

“As a pioneering project in Europe, the planned lesbian housing project and queer cultural center stands for lesbian and queer visibility and gender justice,” said Jutta Brambach, managing director of RuT. “With mobile cultural events, we are already making it possible to experience how beneficial diversity is for society.”

Ephraim Gothe, the district councilor for urban development and facility management said local officials were “proud to be able to support this project as a district and thus make a further contribution to an inclusive and livable city.”

The project has a planned completion date of October 2025.

https://rmx.news/germany/lesbian-only-retirement-apartment-approved-with-subsidized-rent-in-berlin-city-center/

Europe Horrified by Surge of Migrant Children Engaging in Mock Gang Rapes and Beheadings (Video)

Migrant children’s disturbing mock rapes and executions in Europe reveal a culture of silence, where politicians, police, and media deliberately ignore the crimes to protect their immigration policies.

In a shocking incident that unfolded in a Munich backyard, a group of five boys, reportedly migrants, subjected a young girl to a distressing display of violence by engaging in what can only be described as a simulated rape. The perpetrators, aged between 12 and 16, restrained the 12-year-old girl in a headlock while making suggestive gestures, including thrusting their hips. A video capturing the entire ordeal, which was widely circulated on social media, has been verified by the police as genuine.

The distressing 29-second video, which has sparked public outrage, portrays a scene where the boys appear to assault the girl in a courtyard. One of the boys restrains her in a chokehold while another grabs her hips, mimicking the actions associated with rape. The other teenagers, donning sweatpants and baseball caps, stand nearby, laughing and cheering on their friend. The roles are subsequently reversed, and each participant takes turns enacting the grotesque imitation of a sexual assault. The girl, visibly terrified, falls to the ground and covers her face with both hands, defenseless against the ongoing torment. The boys, capturing the scene on video, continue to laugh and make explicit gestures.

Brit bottled by migrant squatters after confronting group living in his Spanish home

A British homeowner in the Spanish province of Málaga has been hospitalized after traveling from England to confront a group of migrant squatters living in his Spanish property.

The incident occurred on Tuesday in the town of Manilva, located approximately 100 kilometers southwest of Málaga.

Police officers from the Guardia Civil post in Manilva are investigating the incident. (Google)

The victim, known as Michael, had received a call two days prior from neighbors at the Spanish residential complex informing him of movement within his property. When it became clear a group of men had accessed the property and were now living in it, the British national flew out from Liverpool to recover his home.

According to Spanish newspaper El Confidencial, Michael noticed the locks had been changed, and accessed his property from the balcony of an adjoining apartment. Once inside his home, he identified “three men, probably of Moroccan nationality.”

They reportedly expressed their intention to assert their rights under Spanish law, a tense discussion escalated into an assault when one of the squatters used a bottle to attack the Brit, bloodying his face and torso.

“One of them breaks a glass bottle with which he struck several blows to the complainant’s body and head while he was struggling,” the police report read.

The victim was taken to the hospital where he spent a night under observation.

It later transpired that the squatters had been given access to the property by a former tenant without the owner’s knowledge or consent, according to a local source cited by El Mundo.

Under Spain’s liberal squatting laws, it is notoriously difficult for owners to evict illegal occupants from a property once they have access to it, and judicial intervention is required.

The judicial process in this regard was sped up through constitutional changes in 2018; however, property owners still often find themselves in legal difficulty when attempting to take matters into their own hands.

This is an issue that Mario Jiménez, the mayor of Manilva City Council, wants to see addressed. He expressed concern about the attack generating publicity that “does not do the municipality or anyone outside our borders any good.

“There is a need for sanity to solve the problem of squatting, to provide judges and state security forces and bodies with the necessary tools to combat it,” he added.

https://rmx.news/crime/brit-bottled-by-migrant-squatters-after-confronting-group-living-in-his-spanish-home/

First German major city imposes budget freeze due to exploding costs of refugees

Dresden, Jens Strauß, CC-BY-SA-3.0

Dresden’s mayor Dirk Hilbert (FDP) has sounded the alarm about the expenses in his city. The exploding additional costs for taking in asylum seekers are causing a gigantic hole in the current budget, he complained, according to the newspaper ‘Bild’.

This item is causing the biggest rise in the costs, he said. There was already a shortfall of 200 million euros. Actually, 30 million euros had been budgeted for 2023 and 2024 together. But that is nothing but enough! Another 38 million euros are needed.

The six housing containers alone, as well as the hotel rentals to accommodate the migrants, cost almost 50 million euros. By the end of next year, another 17.3 million euros would have to be invested in renting the city hostel.

Saxony is simply abandoned by the federal government to deal with these high expenditures. “You have also heard the massive outcry of the district councils. Of the one billion euros that the federal government has announced to relieve the states, about 47 million euros remain for Saxony. In Dresden, 6.5 million euros could be received in the best case scenario – that’s not even a drop in the ocean,” Hilbert clarified.

He was also concerned about the rising operating costs in schools and day-care centres or investments in new buildings or the purchase of social housing. Dresden has to dig deep into its pockets for this, which is slowly becoming almost unmanageable.

https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2023/kein-geld-in-dresden/