“We cannot force Britain to take back immigrants we would reject,” says Ivana Bacik

Labor leader Ivana Bacik said disinformation characterized the debate and that the government had no control over the situation. The justice minister was forced to rely on anecdotes, she said, without clear data. She said it was a scandal that Baggot Street Hospital was standing still while there was a tent city on nearby Mount Street, she said, adding that she had visited that location today. “We cannot force Britain to take back immigrants we would reject,” she said. If the Rwanda policy was fundamentally incompatible with international human rights law, even though it was now the law in Britain, then there was no way to repatriate anyone to Britain, she said. “We do have data, and we collect data,” Mr. Harris said, “but we don’t count people coming across the border. But very experienced staff are conducting interviews (at the IPO office) and they are telling government that the majority are now from Britain.” The Taoiseach said people were becoming frustrated because they wanted to help those in need, but they also wanted to know that there was a rules-based system in place.