{"id":39008,"date":"2024-04-30T10:34:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T10:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/ireland-uk-asylum-seeker-row-irish-pm-insists-westminster-must-honour-current-agreement\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:34:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T10:34:52","slug":"ireland-uk-asylum-seeker-row-irish-pm-insists-westminster-must-honour-current-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/ireland-uk-asylum-seeker-row-irish-pm-insists-westminster-must-honour-current-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland-UK asylum seeker row: Irish PM insists Westminster must honour current agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ireland’s prime minister has insisted the UK must respect an existing arrangement between the two countries to take back asylum seekers.<\/p>\n

Simon Harris told Sky News the UK must honour a deal that has been in place since 2020 as a row escalates over the Irish government’s new plans<\/a><\/strong> to return to the UK asylum seekers who cross the border into the Republic from Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

Irish justice minister Helen McEntee told a parliamentary committee last week that more than 80% of recent arrivals in Ireland came via the land border with Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

The UK government has said it will not take back asylum seekers who cross the border into Ireland “until the EU accepts that we can send them back to France”.<\/p>\n

The number of migrants crossing the English Channel from the continent in small boats<\/a><\/strong> during the first four months of the year reached its highest ever level at the weekend.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday morning, Irish PM Mr Harris told Sky News: “There is already an agreement in place between Ireland and Britain since 2020.<\/p>\n

“What we’re doing is giving legal clarity in relation to that agreement which will allow us to designate the UK as a safe country again.<\/p>\n

“It’s also very important for people in Britain to understand that this is a two-way agreement.<\/p>\n

“This is to ensure that refugees can be sent in both directions if their application is inadmissible.<\/p>\n

“We also have a legitimate expectation that agreements between our two countries are honoured.”<\/p>\n

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The row between the two countries comes as the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda came into law last week<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ireland’s deputy prime minister and foreign secretary Micheal Martin said the threat of deportation to Rwanda was causing “fearful” migrants to head for Ireland instead of the UK.<\/p>\n

Mr Harris said on Sunday Ireland would “not provide a loophole for anybody else’s migration challenges”.<\/p>\n

He added on Tuesday that the largest percentage of people coming to Ireland illegally recently has been from Nigeria so last week they brought in fast-track applications for people from Nigeria.<\/p>\n

“We have every right to have our own migration policy,” he told Sky News.<\/p>\n

“People have every expectation that it would be enforced, that it would be firm, that it would be rules-based.<\/p>\n

“And I think we also all have a legitimate expectation that agreements between two countries are honoured.”<\/p>\n

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A major operation by the Home Office to detain migrants across the UK in preparation for their deportation to Rwanda has begun “weeks earlier than expected”.<\/p>\n

But it has been reported that more than half of the asylum seekers allocated for removal to Rwanda cannot be found<\/a><\/strong>, according to the government’s own impact assessment.<\/p>\n

Ministers from the UK and Ireland met in London on Monday as part of a planned conference, involving Mr Martin and the Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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