Irish authorities begin clearing 'slums' of asylum seekers

Asylum seekers camped outside Dublin's international defense office were confronted by police and council officials. Photo: ROLLINGNEWS.IE Workers remove tents from Mount Street in Dublin city centre. Photo: ROLLINGNEWS.IE

Mount Street, where the tents were set up, was closed to traffic on Wednesday morning, with barriers at both ends of the street. The Irish Independent reports that uniformed police, council officials and asylum seeker buses were at the scene.

Long lines of people waited patiently next to a convoy of at least five buses parked in the middle of the street. a street awaiting traffic at dawn in Dublin.

In the early hours of the morning, police closed off Mount Street in Dublin city center and installed metal railings to keep pedestrians away while they carried out their operation outside the International Protection Service.

Vans with metal barriers stood along the street, and people in white protective suits and masks untied tents and dragged them to the side of the road. Each tent was marked with a red X, indicating their eviction.

“It’s also very important that we don’t see scenes like these on Mount Street again, that they don’t happen again, that we have hundreds of tents – not just outside the international protection office – but outside people’s homes, outside businesses people,” said Helen McIntee, the justice minister, on Tuesday evening.

A worker clears the sidewalk after migrant tents have been removed Photo: Kate McCurry/PA Asylum seekers live in tents on Mount Street Photo: PAUL FAITH/AFP

The Irish government says up to 90 per cent of people seeking asylum in Ireland this year entered the country from Britain across the border with Northern Ireland.

Rishi Sunak has refused to take back any information. asylum seekers, and Mr Harris insists the UK entered into a return agreement with Ireland in November 2020.

The Irish government has passed legislation to facilitate the return of migrants. Dublin has said it hopes the process will begin in a few weeks, but Britain insists it will only take them back if the EU agrees to a bloc-wide migrant deal that would allow Britain to send Channel migrants back to France.< /p>