Double Standards ?

Fine Gael’s Bernard Allen is concerned at US treatment of Irish illegals and the American Ambassador is to be asked a joint Oireachtais committee on foreign affairs.Meanwhile Ireland is jailing and deporting illegal immigrants, some of whom have Children who were born in Ireland. From earlier in the year: Ireland deports 64

IRELAND chartered a plane and used 35 police officers to deport 64 illegal immigrants, underscoring the cost and difficulty of combating the flow of bogus asylum-seekers to the emerald isle.

Among the 52 Romanians and 12 Moldovans were a dozen children, all of whom were arrested in a series of coordinated police raids in five counties last week. The Justice Department said the flight, which included an on-board doctor, nurse and interpreter, cost an estimated 120,000 euros.

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