EZRA LEVANT ｜ Dublin Protests： Rebel News Pepper-Sprayed Amid Mass Migration Uprising
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A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an asylum seeker at a government run refugee camp in Dublin. The Irish Daily Mirror covered the story, but no other media outlet covered it. Ezra and his crew were pepper sprayed covering protests outside the City West Hotel.
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Chaos in Dublin, the Rebel News crew was pepper sprayed as protests broke out over an alleged assault by an asylum seeker in Ireland.
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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I bet you're surprised to see me. I'm filling in for Ezra Levant tonight, who's on special assignment in Dublin, Ireland, and he was caught in the chaos there.
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Ezra and Rebel videographer Lincoln Jay were covering protests outside the City West Hotel, where fury erupted after reports that a 10-year-old girl was allegedly assaulted by an asylum seeker in that government-run facility.
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But Ezra and Lincoln weren't alone. Hundreds of Irish citizens took to the streets demanding justice and safety for their children.
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Riot police moved in, pepper spray filled the air, and Ezra and Lincoln were caught right in the middle of it.
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Oh, and a police car burned. But those trying to silence dissent or intimidate the press only want to distract from the real victims here.
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You know, the 10-year-old girl and the people of Ireland who fear the same could happen to their own.
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We won't look away. Neither will you. That's next on The Ezra Levant Show.
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Good morning. Ezra Levant here. I just touched down in Dublin. It's 9 a.m., which is 4 a.m. back in Toronto.
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Managed to get a couple hours sleep on the plane. The reason I've come back to Dublin is a horrific thing happened yesterday.
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Allegedly, a migrant at a huge urban refugee camp that the Irish government set up in Dublin allegedly raped a 10-year-old girl at that refugee camp.
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Now, this 10-year-old girl was in state custody, so she was a ward of the state.
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How did a 10-year-old girl find her way from being a ward of the state to the refugee camp and being allegedly raped there?
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It's so shocking. And how did the alleged rapist, how was he there too?
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He came to Ireland, according to reports, six years ago and was ordered deported.
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He was ordered out. His asylum claim was rejected. He was ordered deported.
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But he was still in Ireland, not just in Ireland, at that government refugee camp.
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The Irish government itself didn't even take its own deportation orders seriously.
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Now, I landed, and there's a lot of newspapers in Ireland.
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They probably got, you know, five or ten of their own newspapers, which is quite a bit for a country of just five million.
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Only the Irish Daily Mirror covered this story, and they covered it big on the front page.
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That's what they call their child and family services.
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Gardee, that's what they call their police probe at IPAS Centre.
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I don't want to use that term because it's designed to obscure.
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The government of Ireland bought the largest hotel in the country.
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And they have stacked it and filled it to the brim with 2,000 refugees.
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Like there's an island that used to be a prison island called Spike Island.
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Not in the downtown, but it's in the city of Dublin.
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In fact, locals have been documenting a crime wave because of this refugee camp.
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Normally, it's just harassment and trespass, public drunkenness and threats, minor assaults.
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The crime rate in this IPAS Centre, this refugee camp, is 30 times as high as the normal Irish crime rate.
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But there is a unanimity in the political class in Ireland to support massive open borders immigration.
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And the parties collude with each other to keep out any critics.
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For example, Conor McGregor, the mixed martial arts fighter.
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And part of his theme was to stop open immigration.
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Well, there's very complex rules for running for president here.
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And they basically locked hands and said, no, no, no one from outside our groupthink is allowed.
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All the political parties in their parliament here support mass open immigration.
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I mean, I'm shocked that the Irish Daily Mirror even put this in the newspapers.
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And I saw one story online that said, indecent act committed in Dublin.
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Well, that is accurate, but it obscures more than it reveals.
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They didn't say it was against a 10-year-old girl.
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And they certainly didn't say it was at the refugee camp.
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We have come over from Canada because we love Ireland.
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We've gotten to know it a little bit over the last year.
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This is, I think, our sixth visit here to study the Irish people waking up and saying, we want to keep Ireland Irish.
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I mean, I suppose there are Irish around the world.
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There's millions of Irish in America and Canada.
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And I think that Ireland should be for the Irish just like France should be for the French and Italy for the Italians.
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And it's shocking to me to see a country known for its rebel spirit, known for kicking the British out, just open the floodgates to anyone, including men who rape their own children.
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We're going to be going to the City West area today to talk to locals.
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And there is a mass protest planned for 7.30 p.m. Ireland time.
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That's 2.30 p.m. in Toronto, New York, the East Coast of North America.
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So we will be on the scene talking to people, covering it, because I fear that the regime media, the mainstream media, will either ignore it, as 90% of the newspapers did today, or say what they usually say, basically calling any Irish mothers who are worried about rape, basically calling them racist.
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We're going to give the other side of the story.
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And we're going to stand up for this poor little girl.
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If you want to follow our reports, you can do so on a special website we've set up called MigrantReports.com.
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As you may know, Rebel News covers this mass immigration crisis around the world.
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We cover it in the UK, in France, in the Netherlands.
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And we'll have our reports there at MigrantReports.com.
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Lincoln and I came over from Canada last night.
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It was still sort of expensive on last minute's notice.
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But if you can help us out to chip in, to crowdfund our expenses, that's the difference between us and the state broadcaster, RTE.
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They live off the avails of the government, which is why they never criticize the government.
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All right, we're going to make our way to City West.
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I'm standing outside the Blanchardstown courthouse.
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This is where, earlier this morning, the accused rapist of the 10-year-old girl had a brief first appearance.
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Second of all, and more interestingly, he had an Arabic translator.
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The fact that he had an Arabic translator tells us a little bit about the man's identity.
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But for some bizarre reason, his name has not been released.
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I can understand why the 10-year-old rape victim herself, her identity is concealed for her privacy.
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There's something else that happened late last night that I have to say felt atrocious.
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Not as atrocious as the rape itself, but it certainly added insult to injury.
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This 10-year-old girl was in the care of the state, something called Tusla,
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which is the Irish Child and Family Services for children who have trouble.
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They find a home for them and are supposed to protect them.
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When news came out that this 10-year-old girl somehow made her way from custody of Tusla to being raped,
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Tusla put out a statement where they listed event after event besmirching the 10-year-old.
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Implying that she had low morals and that she was unmanageable.
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Absolutely shocking as if a 10-year-old girl in any way deserved this or brought this upon herself.
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An attempt to cast her as a villain or cast her in some way as the author of her own misfortune.
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It was they who failed her and they're trying to blame her.
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You know, I want to draw your attention to the two flags that are flying there on the courthouse.
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But there's that EU flag, the European Union flag.
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Ireland remains in the European Union, unlike the United Kingdom, which had a Brexit.
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But that star circle has something to do with this rape too.
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Because one of the legal and political excuses that the government of Ireland uses to bring in mass numbers of migrants
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is they say they have some obligation under the European Convention of Human Rights to do so.
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Europe says we have to bring in these migrants by the million.
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The population of Ireland is about five million.
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But these illegal migrants, many of whom simply walk over the land border from Northern Ireland,
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throwing out their IDs and saying they're refugees.
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That's actually contrary to what the definition of a refugee is.
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If you're coming from Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, you cannot be a refugee because you're not in a dangerous place.
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It's just like the migrants who go from France to the UK itself.
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By definition, ab initio, as lawyers would say, these are fake refugees.
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The man whose identity is being kept secret for some reason.
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His application for refugee status was rejected.
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So you know it's got to be awful if the Irish government said no to him.
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Why did it take six years for his case to be heard?
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And when he was ordered deported, why was he not deported?
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I've seen one excuse given that the cost of it.
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Especially compared to the ongoing welfare and free services that a migrant would be receiving.
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Of course, the horrendous human cost of this rape.
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Earlier today, GRIFT, which is one of my favorite news sources.
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It's the only trustworthy independent news source in Ireland in my mind.
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They actually scrummed Simon Harris, the former prime minister, now the foreign minister.
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They asked him if there are any lessons to learn here.
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That's his favorite phrase, when things under his watch go south.
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Ask Simon Harris what he thinks of this horrific event.
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Tanister, what would be your message to members of the public who feel like incidents like this
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are an inevitable and even likely result of government policy, effectively,
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So the first thing I'd say, and I'd respectfully say to people,
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including people who are genuinely very concerned and deeply distressed
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and profoundly worried about the developments that they've heard of overnight.
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I think what I would also say is we have to allow the facts to be established.
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Alongside that, there are a number of issues that I'm not yet in a position to comment on today
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based on issues that have come to the fore regarding TUSA,
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regarding a young child, regarding their safety and their well-being,
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regarding the status of any individual involved in the committing of a intentionally extraordinarily serious crime.
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So I would ask people to allow those facts to be established.
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But I am acknowledging that there are serious and profound issues.
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Obviously, you say that it looks like there's been serious systemic failings here,
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that there's major issues that will be raised by this case.
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But we've seen so many shocking cases regarding TUSA and children in state care.
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Is this going to be another lessons will be learned situation where we all say,
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Jenny Mack, that's horrifying, and then we move on,
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and then we see something else like this in six months or 12 months?
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Like, when is the action part going to come in, I guess is what I'm asking.
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And the first thing, and look, I stand here with you every week,
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and I'll be back here and we'll continue this conversation as we should.
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But I do want to allow that little bit of time here to actually establish the facts,
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because I don't want to say something that turns out to be patently false or wrong
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in a couple of hours or a couple of days' time.
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You couldn't be a citizen of Ireland and read this case this morning
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and read the information in the public domain and not be deeply concerned and worried.
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There's a number of changes that we've made in a whole variety of areas,
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because even commenting on them is pre-empting where the coming hours and days are going to bring us to.
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And my immediate thoughts, though, of course, are with the young child.
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Just that young child and what that young child must be going through right now.
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But as a public representative, as a government leader,
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in establishing the facts so that we can work out what happened in this case
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and what must happen is where the priority needs to be.
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The foreign migrant who was ordered out of this country and refused to leave was heard this morning.
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He does not yet have bail, but I understand he may be back in court tomorrow morning seeking bail
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He had an Arabic interpreter, meaning he is obviously Arabic, if that's your language,
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and he hasn't bothered to learn English in the six years he's been here.
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And the government so far won't condemn him, but they'll smear the 10-year-old girl.
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We're going to make our way to City West where I would imagine there's going to be people mustering already.
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Tonight at 7.30 p.m. will be a protest against this.
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I was talking to an earlier, earlier I met another reporter from Virgin Media who seemed quite nice,
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And I said, we've been covering the migrant crisis in Ireland for about a year and a half now,
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and it's fascinating to me to see the entire establishment on the side of the migrants
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and only grassroots organizers on the side of the people.
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How can it be that none of the establishment parties are critical of open borders immigration
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They're one of the few independent media in this country who are critical of this.
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And we've seen more and more people march against mass immigration,
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but when I saw this news yesterday, I felt like something was qualitatively different.
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To have this migrant who was ordered out of the country but refused to go,
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allegedly rape a 10-year-old girl, and the first reaction of the government is to blame the girl.
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I believe that this is a turning point in the Irish debate over these issues,
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just like the Southport stabbings were a turning point in the United Kingdom,
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if you remember, when Axel Radicabana stabbed and murdered children at a child's party.
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That really radicalized people, that made people wake up in the UK,
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and this rape of a 10-year-old girl may be the same in Ireland.
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Follow along at migrantreports.com for all of our reports.
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It's a massive, sprawling complex with different buildings,
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And you can understand, when you see the scope and the scale of it,
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why the Irish government paid the equivalent of a quarter of a billion dollars Canadian.
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It was about 150 million euros to buy this beautiful facility and turn it into a refugee camp.
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In fact, it's so large, it has different wings.
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The first place we went to was the Ukrainian wing.
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In fact, they had some signage in Ukrainian in the yellow and blue colors of the Ukrainian flag,
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and everyone in that area seemed to be Ukrainian.
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We're outside, I think, the main part of the City West Hotel now,
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and the bulk of the people we see seem to be Muslim.
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We have seen a number of women in hijabs pushing strollers,
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so that tells me it's not just men at the compound.
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I've done my best to try and find out the gender breakdown,
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likes to keep a lot of opacity with those details.
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But I have seen credible estimates that say the majority of refugees in this refugee camp
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But I can say from visual confirmation there are women here as well,
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It's such an enormous place, and the fact that it was bought outright
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is a destiny that Ireland's political leaders want.
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There are an enormous number of hotels that have been rented on a temporary basis.
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That's something they do in the United Kingdom as well.
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And the first thing that comes to mind is taking beautiful hotels like this
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off the hotel market and taking it out of the reach of ordinary Irish people
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where you go to celebrate a wedding or commemorate a funeral
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They're a hub of social life, and suddenly you can no longer do that.
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It's a hub of tourism. Suddenly that is shut down.
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There's also an understanding of what is one thing that's driving this insane immigration,
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I was in the small village of Dundrum, Ireland last year.
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The village itself has less than 200 people in the whole place.
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Are you supposed to be filming? Have you got permission?
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Okay. Why do you come up to me and give me advice?
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And what's your concern? What do you worry is going to happen?
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You know, obviously someone who doesn't want the light of scrutiny,
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the center of their social life was this lovely golf and country club.
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And suddenly the whole place was bought out because they just offered such a staggering number to the owner
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that he replaced its role in the community with a refugee camp in this five-star luxury.
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And suddenly 240 migrants moved into a village of 200 people.
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The Irish immediately became a minority in their own town.
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That's not going to happen in a big city like Dublin, well, or Canada.
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You know, last year I walked up and down a boardwalk alongside the river
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and I actually didn't see a single person who was Irish.
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So this is obviously a large and continuous process.
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Even today, when the Irish foreign minister, the Tanisha, as he's called,
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was asked about this refugee system in light of the rape that was accused of a migrant,
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not for a second did he consider that maybe bringing in countless foreigners,
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especially those without ID about whom the Irish government knows nothing,
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not for a second did it dawn on him to suggest that this massive immigration policy be reviewed.
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Anyways, we're wandering around City West Hotel and there was someone who didn't like us here.
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We will come back tonight at 7.30 when a massive protest is expected.
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I'm at the entrance to City West, which if you didn't know any better, you'd say,
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oh, it's a magnificent university campus or a gorgeous hotel resort golf club.
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And it does look like both of those things, but it's neither.
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It has been bought by the government of Ireland for a quarter of a billion dollars Canadian, 158 million euros,
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and turned into a luxury housing facility, housing and food and recreation, for foreign migrants who come to Ireland.
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There are no refugees who come to Ireland because the rule about refugees is you have to seek asylum in the first country you get to,
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There's no one who is flying to Ireland from Somalia, from Syria, from Pakistan.
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They've all come through a second or third or fourth country, the UK or France or something like that.
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So ab initio, from the beginning, every single person in here is an immigration fraud.
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In fact, 80% of them lose their documents on their way over.
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They're fraudulent, and yet they're allowed to be housed at taxpayers' expense for years.
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The accused rapist, a 26-year-old man from North Africa, who is alleged to have raped a 10-year-old girl yesterday,
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he had six years in this country before his asylum claim was finally ruled on, and it was rejected.
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He had a deportation order, but he didn't leave.
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I'm here because there's been a call for a protest against this mass migration and the migrant hotels and all the crime that comes from it.
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You can see the police, or the Garda, as they're called here, starting to gather.
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Still almost 90 minutes away from when the protest against this massive urban refugee camp gets underway.
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But already you can see the police have set up cones, and the police are called the Garda here in Ireland.
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Any car that's signaling to come into the refugee camp, they're grilling them, asking them questions, turning them away.
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It's sort of a light touch out here, but there's plenty more police and police vans in the compound, the campus, this massive, sprawling quarter-billion-dollar pleasure palace for 2,000 migrants while Irish go homeless.
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It's interesting that they're inspecting every car going in, but not inspecting every car going out.
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And one of the people who came and gone from this place was a 26-year-old migrant from North Africa, who speaks Arabic, who allegedly raped a 10-year-old Irish girl.
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If only the police would check the people coming in to Ireland as carefully as they're checking the Irish going in to this refugee camp.
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Just to show you how upside down this world is, there's a blind woman and her child who were trying to get in there, and the police turned them away because this refugee camp's on lockdown now because some Irish are having a protest.
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They're literally being sent blocks away because the Gardaí have decided that protecting the refugees is the most important thing in Ireland tonight.
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This is after a migrant allegedly raped a 10-year-old girl, so they're sending a blind mom down the road a few blocks.
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Dirty fucking bastard! She was 10 years old and you protect them fucking all!
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It was an absolutely incredible moment as two Irish Patriots on horses come trotting
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A dramatic show of Irish culture and Irish determination.
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They did not breach the gates, but they certainly got cheers all along.
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I'm in Dublin, Ireland outside Ireland's largest urban refugee camp with 2,000 military-aged
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migrant men inside and outside hundreds, maybe 1,000 protesters.
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The protest has turned violent as has the reaction to it.
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There's a big police van that's just being set on fire.
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I was pepper sprayed right in the eye about 10 minutes ago.
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My ear, though, feels like it's got Tabasco sauce poured into it.
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The police response was indiscriminate and brutal and overwhelming.
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That doesn't seem to have deterred hundreds of people here.
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Yes, I would say the bulk of the people here are men, but it was very much a family protest.
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At least at the outset, the police pepper spray was indiscriminate.
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I think maybe the Irish are more used to a bellicose style of protest than we Canadians
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These are the folks who resisted for centuries and had a rebellion against the British Empire.
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And until a generation ago, there was the, quote, troubles.
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So I think that there's an appetite here for more fiery protests than we have back home.
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I myself remain of words like, you know, beat your plowshares, swords into plowshares, man.
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But this is Ireland, and they feel like their very existential situation is at risk.
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There's five million people on the island, but only four million of them are Irish.
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A million newcomers have been brought in, and the numbers don't seem to stop.
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And many of the people who have been brought here do not respect women, as was evidenced
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I'm going to sign off and move away from the fire.
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Lincoln says he's worried there could be an explosion.