[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by lime

Cherie I know you are Irish...there was a chap on the the Joe Duffy show the other day that was walking through Freedom park in Kilkenny...he and his son were savageley beaten by Irish gangs..The numbers of those who want to leave their own countries to get to where we are is staggering...But ...nobody can deny that..Isn't that human nature to leave and hope for a better life for you and your kids.....


I left South Africa as a Boer ...because of what was happening to us whites..
I left with a great education ...thanks to Apartheied

Yeah i get what you are saying, but you immigrated legally, these people are paying traffickers putting their own and their kids life at risk, more often than not they have to be rescued from over crowded ships, then when they land all they have ahead of them is a detention centre in a country that is stretched trying to cope, I blame the traffickers who are selling an idyll that does not exist, controlled immigration is one thing, what the traffickers are doing is heaping misery on misery

As as aside Ireland, for a country that exported people regularly over the years ican be less than welcoming with people coming in

[lime]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Yeah i get what you are saying, but you immigrated legally, these people are paying traffickers putting their own and their kids life at risk, more often than not they have to be rescued from over crowded ships, then when they land all they have ahead of them is a detention centre in a country that is stretched trying to cope, I blame the traffickers who are selling an idyll that does not exist, controlled immigration is one thing, what the traffickers are doing is heaping misery on misery

As as aside Ireland, for a country that exported people regularly over the years ican be less than welcoming with people coming in

Cherie we came here legally quite simply because we could....contrary to other opinions we never turned up at Dublin port saying give us a job...Bertie & Co turned up in JBourg during Celtic tiger recruiting us
I get what you are saying about migrants putting their kids lives at risk..I think both you and me Cherie left our home countries to make a better life for our families....but let's face it we weren't being bombed arse over tits