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On the ground at Ireland’s massive protest against illegal immigration

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In this special edition of The Ezra Levant ShowEzra reports from the streets of Dublin, where fed-up citizens held a massive demonstration against the open-borders immigration policy.

An Irish government policy gave 17,000 undocumented migrants and their families the opportunity to obtain citizenship through a one-in-a-generation program. The country is expected to accept 20,000 asylum seekers by the end of 2024, more than 6,000 of whom had applied as of April 12.

“Get them out!” was a call chanted by thousands of demonstrators in Dublin. “NGO scum!” was another. There were even some chants taken from left-wing protests, such as ‘Irish lives matter’ and ‘Whose streets? Our streets.”

Several dozen counter-protesters gathered against the protest, divided by local law enforcement to keep the peace.

“They are labeled as ‘extreme right’ by the usual suspects, but that’s hard to believe when you see the extremely normal people walking around here,” Ezra said of the crowd.

“They are just concerned about their communities and the fact that Ireland, which is quite a small country, is being asked to take in hundreds of thousands of migrants.”

Last week, 60 asylum seekers, many of them military-age men, arrived at Trudder House in the small town of Newtownmountkennedy, after weeks of resistance from locals.

“Communities that have been Irish for centuries are suddenly confronted with hundreds of migrants,” Ezra continued.

The war in Ukraine has also led to a wave of migrants arriving in Ireland. So far, about 100,000 Ukrainians have arrived in the country of five million people.

“For proportions, that would be the same as Canada taking a million Ukrainians,” Ezra noted. “It simply highlights every part of the system.”

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