IRISH IMMIGRATION STATS

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POPULATION PROJECTIONS (studies show these worry the public the most when mentioned)
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Eurostat projected in 2011 that by 2061, 50% of under 14s would have a migrant background.
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-statistical-working-papers/-/KS-RA-11-019

Longford council told residents the population of their county would be 50% non-Irish by 2050
http://archive.is/i1OdU

Simon Coveney wants to double the population of every city outside Dublin #Ireland2040
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi39xuMFL-U

14.1% of under 18s in Ireland do not speak Irish or English at home according to the 2016 census.
https://i.imgur.com/w74avSM.png

One in four: The number of children in Ireland who are born to a mother without Irish citizenship (about 15K per year)
http://www.thejournal.ie/poverty-children-ireland-immigrant-non-irish-1599272-Aug2014/

90%: The percentage of students with a migrant background in one Dublin school called St Mary's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WyuNdwa85s

70%: The percentage of the people in Adamstown are born to non Irish parents, mostly Indian, Pakistani, African, Filipino and Eastern European.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA3jeEHi4N4

According to the 2016 census, 3.3% of 10-14 year olds in Ireland were listed as having an African background. This correlates to the peak of the birth-right citizenship crisis when pregnant women from all over the world were flying in to give birth during the years between 1998 and 2004.
https://i.imgur.com/jKaibdE.jpg

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FIGURES FOR ILLEGALS
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20,000 to 26,000: The estimated number of illegals living and working in Ireland in 2015 according to the Migrant Rights Centre.
5000: The estimated number of children these illegals have in Ireland with them. I would suggest this is an underestimate.
The most common nationalities among undocumented people living here include people from the Philippines, China, Mauritius, Brazil and Pakistan.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/government-considers-proposal-on-undocumented-migrants-1.2278107

10,000: The number of people a 2010 investigation found were working in Ireland illegally on bogus foreign student visas.
https://www.independent.ie/life/family/learning/10000-working-here-illegally-on-bogus-foreign-student-visas-26631618.html

16: The number of English language colleges closed between April 2014 and May 2015
http://www.thejournal.ie/english-language-college-closures-ireland-2085691-May2015/

126,000: The number of illegals TD Eoin O'Broin said there were living in Ireland whom he wanted to regularise
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/ireland-urged-to-regularise-status-of-undocumented-migrants-1.3031291

1,900: Number of applications made in 2010 by non-EU nationals for residence based on marriage to an EU national in Ireland under EU Treaty Rights. The numbers involved were almost equal to our asylum application numbers.
The largest non-EU nationality group making such applications were from Pakistan which accounted for nearly 20% of all EUTR applications.
Two-thirds of these Pakistani applications involved an EU partner from the Baltic States.
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/2010-asylum-stats

80% of failed asylum seekers are never deported - Sunday Times, Jul 9, 2017
http://i.imgur.com/7v6L4I5.png

There is an undeclared scheme in operation by the immigration authorities granting failed asylum seekers and illegals who have been in Ireland for five years permission to stay as long as they don't have a criminal record or failed to abide a deportation order.
Asylum Lawyers colloquially refer to this scheme as “the scheme that doesn’t exist”.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/mother-resorted-to-prostitution-to-fund-sons-medication-court-hears-36518112.html

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CENSUS FIGURES NOT ACCURATE - many more Chinese here and others...
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In 2006, a senior lecturer at the dept of Sociology in Maynooth co-authored a studying estimating that the real number of Chinese people living in Ireland probably lied somewhere between 60,000 and 100,000 and predicted the 2006 census would reflect that. The study was published by the European Commission.
The 2006 census listed the number of Chinese in Ireland at 16,533.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/502/1/06_Chinese_Report.pdf

28,000: The number of Poles living in Ireland who did not fill in the 2011 census as estimated by Polish ambassador to Ireland Marcin Nawrot.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/we-don-t-feel-that-we-are-strangers-here-1.500183

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FIGURES FOR LEGALS (which are already too high and who could potentially have a child, overstay visa)
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115,000: The number of citizens from non-EU countries legally living here in Ireland at the end of 2016
http://justice.ie/en/JELR/INIS_Immigration_in_Ireland_Annual_Review_2016.pdf/Files/INIS_Immigration_in_Ireland_Annual_Review_2016.pdf

95,000: The estimate number of non-EEA nationals given permission to remain in the State in 2014 compared to 107,000 at the end of 2013.
The ctop 6 registered nationalities which account for over 50% of all persons registered are Brazil (12%), India (11%), China (9%), USA (7%), Nigeria (6%), and Philippines (5%). The majority of persons with permission to remain in the State are here for work or study purposes.
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/PR15000018

49,500 The number of people given permission to be in the State as students in 2014. This compares with 45,800 for 2013.
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/PR15000018

107,000: the number of PPS Numbers given to foreign nationals in 2016
http://www.thejournal.ie/pps-number-foreign-nationals-3757741-Dec2017/

58%: Percentage of households of foreign origin which are on Local Authority waiting lists for social housing in 2011 in North Dublin
Figures taken from environ.ie/Dept of Housing
http://i.imgur.com/mRjzAUw.png
https://www.housing.gov.ie/housing/statistics/housing-statistics

54,700: The number of non-EU adults who acquired Irish citizenship between 2005 and 2012.
20,200: The number who became Irish citizens in 2012.
http://www.thejournal.ie/immigration-stats-ireland-1547252-Jun2014/

Over 779,000: The number of passports were issued in 2017, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFA) annual report.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/record-number-of-irish-passports-issued-in-2017-36444048.html

80% of immigrants assigned PPS numbers in 2008 not employed. CSO finds 22,573 people out of 127,048 who arrived in 2008 were on social welfare in 2013
The CSO cited several reasons for the increase in social welfare activity including the birth of a child and jobseekers claims.
Some 38 per cent of the 75,812 foreign nationals assigned PPS numbers in 2013 found employment that year.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/80-of-immigrants-assigned-pps-numbers-in-2008-not-employed-1.2081420

More than 3.5 Million PPS numbers have been issued to migrants since 2000
http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Personal-Public-Service-Number-Statistics-on-Numbers-Issued.aspx

In 2008, Leo Varadkar said Ireland's 40,000 jobless migrants should be paid to return to their countries of origin, He said they cost the State in excess of €400 million a year, should be offered a voluntary repatriation scheme.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/fg-pay-jobless-migrants-to-leave-71589.html

The 2016 census revealed 293,830 non-Irish citizens are employed. 103,774 non-Irish citizens are un-employed, whether they are students, home-carers etc. CSO lists the official unemployment figure at 53,403 for migrants discounting "home-carers" and students etc.
https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/newsevents/documents/census2016summaryresultspart2/Chapter_5_Nationality.pdf

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PROBLEMS CAUSED
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Triad groups are now established here and are involved in serious criminal activity. They are involved in extortion, drug cultivation and other criminal activities. On one occasion gardaí raided 236 premises and arrested 54 foreigners under an investigation codenamed Operation Wireless.
https://www.herald.ie/news/detectives-launch-huge-crackdown-on-triad-gangs-29196810.html

33%: Percentage of people being put up in hotels in emergency accommodation from outside the EU or with no right to social housing in Ireland. The Minister of Housing says he wants to get them onto the housing list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaqacVei-4U

35%: The percentage of rent supplement payments made to non-Irish citizens as of February, 2015.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/david-quinn/huge-scale-of-immigration-is-making-our-housing-crisis-worse-35498057.html

€300 million was paid in HAP payments to landlords in 2018
https://i.imgur.com/TbMTowI.jpg

Luxembourg: The only EU country which grants more citizenship to foreign nationals relative to its population than Ireland
http://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-citizenship-eurostat-1786053-Nov2014/

No. 2: Ireland's ranking in a list of European countries ranked by number of ISIS fighters per overall Muslim Population.
http://i.imgur.com/SrJFuGO.jpg

40%: The employment rate for Africans in Ireland.
https://www.esri.ie/publications/monitoring-report-on-integration-2016/

26.4%: The percentage of parents in child protection cases, who are immigrants.
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/immigrant-parent-families-make-up-264-of-child-protection-cases-says-report-34245482.html

8,015: The number of interpreters required in Irish courts in 2015.
https://i.imgur.com/JDbiew2.jpg

Metro Éireann, reported in January 2018 that the Department of Justice is paying for a scheme that will fast track migrants into Irish teaching jobs, where they will be exempt from having to know any Irish, or have any knowledge of Irish history and culture. 150 migrants have already started on the scheme since it was announced in November 2017.
http://www.politicalirish.com/threads/immigrant-internationally-educated-teachers-scheme-to-fast-track-migrants-into-irish-teaching-jobs.24833/

Ireland has paid out almost €40m in child welfare benefits to families living in other European Union countries over the past three years
http://archive.is/pM18R

EU migrants in Ireland have not boosted public finances reports a study from a Swedish university.
http://www.euronews.com/2018/03/22/eu-migration-boost-public-coffers-in-most-of-europe-study

August, 2018: A total of 27 taxi drivers are under investigation as a result of a multi-agency crackdown involving the immigration bureau.
The operation, codenamed Vantage, followed an analysis of new and existing applicants for public service vehicle (PSV) licences.
It identified a huge increase in the number of applications for licences from non-EU nationals over the past 18 months.
The study showed, in particular, a disproportionate rise in applications from Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals. This led to the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) focusing on the validity of their immigration status and examining their past.
The figures showed there had been 70 applications for taxi licences by nationals from those three countries in 2016.
But the number jumped dramatically to 290 in 2017, more than all of the applications made the previous year.
Last January, the Garda carriage office reported that 40 out of 58 new applications were from non-EU nationals.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crackdown-on-illegal-immigrant-taxi-drivers-37191230.html

More than half of all marriages in the Republic between men from outside the EU and non-Irish EU women in recent years are believed by gardaí to have been shams.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/bogus-marriages-in-republic-linked-to-asylum-claims-1.2949938

IRELAND spent €1 million in 2017 on sending 96 people back to home countries
Govt scheme paid for flights, used cars, legal training and cows
Details kept quiet, info obtained through FOI request
Migrants not barred from re-entering Ireland
https://i.imgur.com/KH9Wynm.jpg

The estimated number of consanguineous couples has grown in subpopulations in Ireland in the past decade, particularly among Pakistanis (>967 couples), Nigerians (418-794 couples) and Indians (54-2099 couples).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283079071_A_review_of_consanguinity_in_Ireland-estimation_of_frequency_and_approaches_to_mitigate_risks

leaked Open Society document suggested NGOs in Ireland are being funded to lobby the government to increase migrant citizenships and to politically mobilise those migrants
https://i.imgur.com/uGKeQFH.jpg

A report into identity fraud, obtained by The Irish Times under the Freedom of Information Act, found there was an organised network which involved "huge trade" in genuine documents, such as P45s, tax credit certs and social services cards, in order to obtain PPS numbers.
The Southern Region ID Project report, completed at the end of 2004, warns: "Many other cases of ID fraud have been encountered and will continue. The influx of new immigrants from the new EU members states has brought new problems and there is a need for constant updates . . . As a department our first line of defence in this area is at the PPS No. issue stage."
In 2000 a report suggested the State was losing between €25 million and €50 million as a result of such identity fraud. In a statement to this newspaper.
In 2002, the department's Client Identity Service Control, which monitors identity fraud issues, examined 635 cases of suspected fraud, 204 of which were found fraudulent.
These fraud cases resulted in 12 arrests.
In 2005, the same section investigated 1,393 cases of suspected fraud, 377 of which were found to be fraudulent. This resulted in 94 arrests.
A more detailed analysis of fraudulent cases for 2004 shows that 303 of the applications were from non-nationals who presented false/forged documents purporting to be from EU states, 20 were other non-national documents and one was Irish documentation.
Much of the kind of fraud identified in the 2004 report documented the use of false passports to obtain PPS numbers, other false ID cards, and the use of bogus UK and French ID cards.
The report involved the investigation of eight companies in the south of the country, where it was known there were high proportions of non-nationals.
In one company survey, six of the seven employees were found to be using false IDs.
http://archive.is/9LNJ5

During three taxi checkpoints, 110 vehicles were inspected and the drivers interviewed. Consequently further inquiries were conducted into the immigration status of 27 drivers.Most of them were being investigated for suspected involvement in sham marriages.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crackdown-on-illegal-immigrant-taxi-drivers-37191230.html