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British and Irish ministers will hold a meeting today on growing claims that amid official London moves, too many asylum seekers are ending up on Irish soil.
The latest figures show that due to a change in immigration patterns, more than 80 percent of people applying for asylum in Ireland enter from the land border with Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, local media report. .
The British Minister for Work and Pensions, Mel Stride, stated today that "we are seeing the early signs of the deterrent effect, which is the whole purpose of the Rwanda bill. People are starting to leave the UK and go to the Republic of Ireland," he claimed, adding that "it is clear that there will now be discussions between our government and their government."
This situation comes at a time when, as The Guardian reports, the English police will start from today to detain asylum seekers identified for deportation to Rwanda, which means that such a thing will happen earlier than planned. Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris made it clear that Ireland will not go back to solving other countries' immigration challenges.
Meanwhile, newly released figures from the Home Office show that more than 7,000 people arrived in Britain by small boat between January 1 and the end of April - a record number for the four-month period.
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