The Strength of Diversity: Being Afraid to Walk Down the Street By Richard Miller (London)
Surely being afraid to walk down the street because you are white, is but a small price to pay for the excitement and vibrancy, if not vibrations from diversity? Irish people should be, as my dear old mother used to say about children, seen and not heard; safer that way.
“One councillor has claimed that her constituents have been left “afraid to walk the streets” after an influx of asylum seekers into her town, where migrants now reportedly make up over one-fifth of the population.
A number of Councillors in the Irish town of Killarney have warned that people are living in fear as a result of a recent influx of migrants into the area.
With over one-fifth of the town’s population now being migrants, the surge mirrors a nationwide increase in the number of non-Ukrainian asylum seekers in Ireland.
Such arrivals have likely been boosted by the open borders policies of the country’s government, with Ireland’s Justice Minister, Helen McEntee, earlier this year implementing a near-blanket amnesty for illegal migrants already living on the island.
According to a report by local paper the Killarney Advertiser, the number of migrants in the town has “increased dramatically in recent weeks due to the Government’s commitment to house an uncapped number of refugees”.
Overall, more than 3,200 asylum seekers are said to be in the town, which — before the influx — only had a population of 10,360 people
Various people from inside the town have since reportedly contacted the paper saying that they are concerned regarding their own safety in the wake of the arrivals, with the publication describing them as “living in fear”.”
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