Immigrationist authorities shipped the migrants in during the dead of night. My, observers may wonder, they couldn’t be trying to hide something, could they?
The place is a small Irish town named Buncrana, which had already received migrants, such as Syrians in 2019, without notice. In Buncrana, which is in County Donegal, almost 30 percent of its 6,000 to 7,000 population is already now foreign-born; meanwhile, it’s claimed that 600 of the town’s young people under 25 have left the area, as its services and housing capacity are strained.
So call this a “Great Replacement,” or a small replacement, but for sure is this: Some residents are fed up, to the point that almost 200 protesters recently locked arms and blocked two buses carrying 66 more migrants to Buncrana shelters — that reportedly had only 19 beds.
Oh, these migrants, who claim asylum, are largely (if not completely) young, male, and unvetted. In fact, “More than 60% of those who applied for asylum in 12 months to February 2023 at Dublin Airport had no identity documents, Department of Justice figures … revealed,” related outlet Gript last month.
(Food for thought: How far would you get traveling without a passport?)
Gript reported further on the protest, which occurred October 16 but received more press just yesterday, writing:
[Protesters] said that people were fearful and “left in the dark” about the government’s plans for the town. Almost 200 people were present at the protest … organisers said, and more than a thousand people had joined the local Facebook group to organise opposition to further migrant centres being opened.
The Department of Integration have adopted a de facto policy of avoiding consultation with local people before opening centres for migrants and asylum seekers in towns across Ireland.
According to government figures some 1,239 migrants seeking asylum were being accommodated in Donegal as at end of August 2023, while almost 6,000 Ukrainians are also being housed.
So the Department of Inundation Integration not only may bring migrants in at night, but does this via a “nighttime” (i.e., “unofficial”) policy. Well, why inform the unwashed peasants, right?
Yet while this policy is unofficial, it’s not unusual. It was reported last year that the Biden administration was flying migrants into secondary American airports — such as Westchester County Airport in New York — in the dead of night to avoid attention. (And you probably thought Biden’s “sundowning” only related to his dementia.)
As for Buncrana, writer Molly Maffei Baldwin, whose mother was born and raised in the town, adds perspective to its migrant woes. As she wrote Friday,