Gript.ie has the details on the Algerian-born man who attempted to stab three children in central Dublin last Thursday, which resulted in several serious injuries and preceded a riot. It’s not a surprise that the government wants to focus on the threat of the “far right” and hate speech, because the original crime shows the government to be incompetent in the extreme.
The man, whose name cannot yet be shared, arrived in Ireland in 1999 and had been subject to deportation orders for several years. The government had repeatedly concluded that his asylum claim was bogus or defunct. He evaded those deportation orders with the help of government-funded NGOs, lobby groups that the government funds as a kind of astro-turfed civil society.
At each step, until the 2008 court decision, the state firmly opposed any and all efforts to grant the suspect leave to remain in Ireland. For nine years, he had lived here without permission to remain. However, it should be noted that no efforts are on record of the state attempting to enforce the deportation order which was live, and in place, for a full five years. For a period of time, the suspect was classified as an “evader” — somebody who is actively evading the law and avoiding their own deportation.
Nevertheless, and arguably as a result, it came to be that the state was compelled, finally, to grant subsidiary protection, and leave to remain. The suspect later became a naturalised Irish citizen. Gript Media understands that he was never able to hold down a job in Ireland, and was provided with housing by at least one Irish NGO, separate to the NGOs that aided him in his legal battle against deportation.
Read the whole sorry saga. The story is going to highlight the weird and large role NGOs play in Ireland, both in shaping the law and helping “the politically correct” evade it. And it is also going to highlight the fact that the Irish government gives deportation orders but does not in the majority of cases ever take real action to deport people at all.
The amount of government largess expended on this Algerian man, compared with the tight circumstances most young Irish people aspiring to build a life find themselves in, is one that no elected government could stand to have scrutinized for long.
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