After an flow over the border with Northern Ireland, journalist RTE reported on Sunday that Ireland is considering changing the law to let the return of asylum applicants to the UK.
Helen McEntee, the justice minister in Dublin, told a legislative council this week that she estimates that 80 % of asylum applications from the state came from Northern Ireland, which is a part of the UK.
Rishi Sunak, the UK’s prime minister, claimed that the information presented by London’s plan to send refugees to Rwanda was that it was deterrent.
” What it shows, I think, is that the barrier is… now having an impact because people are worried about coming around”, he said.
The president of Ireland, according to a spokeswoman for Simon Harris, “does not remark on the immigration laws of any other land but he is very clear about the importance of protecting the integrity of the immigration system in Ireland,” according to a RTE director.
Ireland’s system is based on rules, which must be strictly and pretty applied.
The British Prime Minister’s request to be made to Cabinet next week to alter existing law allowing the returning of illegal foreign protection applicants to the UK, the spokesperson continued.
When she meets with British interior secretary James Cleverly in London on Monday, McEntee is expected to discuss a fresh return policy.
After a tense fight between parliament’s upper and lower chambers, the UK’s Rwanda bill passed its last hurdle next Monday.
Sunak anticipates that the costs will stop asylum applicants from crossing the Channel from northern Europe to try entering the UK on smaller boats.
