EZRA LEVANT ｜ Single, military-aged men are colonizing Ireland — concerned citizens speak out
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In this episode, Ezra talks to Efron Monsanto in Ireland about immigration, Catherine Tate's trip to France, and why she charged taxpayers $1,000 a night to go see the Olympics in France when she was on a personal vacation.
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Hello, my friends. Over the weekend, I went to Ireland, not even for one full day.
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I think we were on the ground for like eight hours, but we did some more stories on immigration,
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and I got some very interesting little moments I'd like to share with you.
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I went there with our head of video, Efron Monsanto.
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I want to show you what people say on camera about mass immigration.
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I don't think people in Canada are bold enough to talk that way yet.
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Maybe it'll come later, but I really want you to see with your eyes what I'm about to show you,
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especially some conversations I had on the street.
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To do that, you need the video version of this podcast, which we call Rebel News Plus.
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It's eight bucks a month, and Bob's your uncle.
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And by the way, that eight bucks a month might not sound like a lot to you,
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Tonight, I've done a little bit of secret traveling over the weekend.
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It's October 21st, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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It's great to be back in our world headquarters in Canada.
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Very exciting news out of British Columbia, don't you think?
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The B.C. Conservative Party coming within a hair of winning the election out there.
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And frankly, things are just going to get worse for the incumbent NDP.
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I'm also very excited about what this portends for the federal Conservative Party,
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because I think some of the support for the B.C. Conservatives is that the name conservative
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Obviously, there are policy similarities between the dude David Eby, just an atrocious NDP, socialist,
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environmental extremist, carbon tax booster, hard drug pusher, all these things backfiring on him.
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I think it really is a test drive for the federal election that's coming up.
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But if the Conservatives can do so well in an avowedly progressive province,
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they'll be able to do even better in other more moderate places.
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Drea, of course, is our woman on the ground in British Columbia.
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And of course, our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed, covering a lot of hearings.
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She was covering the Foreign Interference Judicial Inquiry, but also hearings of Catherine Tate,
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the CBC poobah, her latest, just outrageous, charging taxpayers $1,000 a night to go see the Olympics in France
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when she was there on a personal vacation anyways.
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Ms. Tate, Mr. Goodman, Ms. Tate, I'm very pleased to see you here in person.
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And in fact, you were there in person for the opening of the Olympic Games.
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I just want to know whether this was during your personal vacation.
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Well, the media has indicated that you charged the Canadian taxpayers $1,000 per night for the hotel,
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as well as other expenses in the order of approximately $6,000.
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So why charge $6,000 to Canadians if you were there during your personal holiday?
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I was in France for my personal holiday during the Olympic Games.
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But during those days, I was working for CBC Radio Canada.
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And if you were to look at all of the newspapers, it was very clear there was no hotel room in Paris
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And I benefited from all of the services, for example, the shuttle that enabled us to go to the opening of the Games
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But you just indicated that you were on a personal holiday, but then you were no longer on a personal holiday.
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That's why I did not ask CBC Radio Canada to pay for my airfare.
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Nevertheless, when I went to the Games, I was working on behalf of Radio Canada, of course, CBC.
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So you cut part of your personal holidays there because you were there two, three weeks a month.
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But you cut those in half and you charge those prices.
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And, of course, our friend Avi Amini is crossing the United States.
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It's fun to see his take on the United States of America asking questions along the way.
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He was in Vegas the other day and he had some fun man-on-the-street interviews.
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If illegals vote, Harris, if it's an actual affair, I mean, it's Trump.
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How do you ensure that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas?
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Election polls across this country say it's too close to call the election between Trump
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While betting agencies have Trump way in the lead.
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So the billion dollar question is, are the polls right or are the markets right?
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We've come to Las Vegas to find out from the average punter what they think.
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Because the mainstream media is working overtime right now to play down the markets.
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Remember, you can go there to see all our reports across the country.
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I started in San Francisco and I will end up in Mar-a-Lago for Election Day.
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Join us there and support our work if you like what you see.
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So let's cut the hype and let's hear from the average person.
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If you had to bet right now, who's going to win the election?
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Well, I haven't even covered all of our reporters, but we really are firing on all pistons.
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I also like to be on the ground covering things.
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And sometimes I travel to other countries, but I am aware of the importance of our own
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And so when I do travel, I try and do so in a very lean way, not just economically, but
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I did the show on Friday and it's Monday and I'm doing the show in the studio today.
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But I have been to three countries since I saw you last.
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On Friday night, I flew with our videographer and head of video, Efron Monsanto.
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I flew to Ireland because I got a very cheap ticket on the way to my final destination that
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And most of the time when you travel and there's a layover, it's sort of a pain in the neck.
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No, we rented a car and did real journalism about the crazy immigration crisis in that
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I want to, there's two interviews on the street.
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Normally when you interview someone on the street, it's a very light, quick interview.
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But these two were very serious, very in-depth.
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They were in the exact same location talking about the exact same thing, but they couldn't
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And it was about mass migration of single military-aged men to Ireland.
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I tell you to talk to these two people back to back as I did in Ireland was just incredible.
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One of the reasons that I like covering the Irish immigration crisis is that the indigenous
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I've seen some Twitter warriors online opposed to it.
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I suppose I would be one of those Twitter warriors, but I have not seen a massive, organized,
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general, nonpartisan street campaign, political campaign against mass immigration in Canada.
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I've seen protests about immigration, but they are those foreign visa holders, either temporary
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workers or students who are complaining that they're being sent home.
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There's about two million people that Justin Trudeau brought to Canada in the last year.
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Of course, most of them aren't really students.
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There's a lot of asylum seekers, fake refugees, et cetera.
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You've seen them protest, but I haven't seen any Canadians protest back.
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But I spent about eight hours on the ground in Ireland.
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And then I went on to a place I'd never been before called Alicante, Spain.
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Now, I landed at night and I left the next morning to go and connect with Tommy Robinson.
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He's the journalist in his own right with his outfit called Urban Scoop.
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I call him a civil rights activist because he's fighting for freedom of speech.
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Anyways, he was heading back to the United Kingdom.
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And there was a real sense that he would be arrested by the British police when he touched
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So the reason I went to Alicante, Spain, was not to hang out there, but to meet up with
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him, get on the same plane as him, and fly back to the UK so that when he was arrested,
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when he landed, I would be right there in a position to film his arrest and help get him
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Well, incredibly, we landed and there were police at the airport, but they just waved
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It was quite a long journey, three night flight flights in a row.
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But the reason I covered those stories is partly because I'm very interested in them, partly
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because I enjoy going to different places and seeing how people do things elsewise.
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But I always feel like I can bring lessons back to Canada.
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And I would say in these two cases in regards to Ireland, when, if ever, will Canadians stand
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up and say, immigration is out of control enough?
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I don't know if you saw some of the polls recently, that a majority of Canadians are not
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They think it is a hard negative for our country.
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And in the case of Takami Robinson, the lesson is sort of the other side of that.
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Just today, news comes of a 61-year-old man who was jailed for months.
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He was jailed for two years in the United Kingdom for tweeting certain things.
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And I think he was shouting at a cop or something in one of the recent race riots.
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And I understand he committed suicide amongst other.
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I mean, when you're 61 years old and put in prison for two years in a prison that's
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run by Islamic gangs, you're not going to have a very good time of it.
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I would say that it was a tantamount to a death sentence.
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And you can imagine what that would be like if Tommy Robinson himself were jailed.
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So those are two stories I jammed in over the weekend.
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But I'm back here in the office on Monday, and I didn't miss a beat.
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There are other stories that we'll be covering in the days and weeks ahead.
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I do have some dental surgery later this week that's going to take me out of the chair for
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And I want to show you some of the things I saw in Ireland.
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And you tell me, are these trips to other places instructive?
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Perhaps if you have a connection to Ireland or a connection to Brazil, where we were last
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month, or a connection to the UK, you find them more interesting.
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But even if you don't have a connection, I have no connection to Ireland.
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But I respect that country as the only home for the Irish people.
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And they were, in fact, the ones who were oppressed.
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Even if you're a bit of an Anglophile like I am, you can acknowledge that Ireland is an
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And what's astonishing to me is to see the indigenous Irish who fought so hard to throw
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off foreign powers now throw open the gates to new colonizers who come as refugees.
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I find that one of the most astonishing things.
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Anyways, that's just a long-winded update of where I've been since I've seen you last.
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So without further ado, let me show you what I got up to in my eight hours in Ireland.
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Kulak is a poor neighborhood in Dublin, but that doesn't mean it's not lovely.
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And I'm standing in a mall just across the street from a residential area.
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You can see there's a Burger King over there, an Odeon movie theater, and a leisure plex.
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It's Saturday morning, and there's families in there.
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And this whole area is made for families and for kids.
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And I've been here three or four times now, and there's lots of teenagers hanging around.
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First of all, you can see the three colors of the Irish flag.
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Not only do you see a few Irish flags at half-mast on the light standards, but you can see some
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And behind them is an abandoned paint factory, the Crown Paint Factory.
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And that's the site of where the Irish government wants to put hundreds of military-age male
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migrants right smack dab in the middle of this family-friendly, child-friendly plaza.
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It's an incredible contradiction, a family plaza made for kids and 500 foreign men, many of whom
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don't speak English, many of whom don't have papers.
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In fact, some of them shred their papers when they arrive here.
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And so it's been the scene of a great number of protests over the past month.
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In fact, we came here in part because we saw footage of a fire.
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And I thought, oh my God, they've finally done it.
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They're going to torch the Crown Paints factory that is the proposed urban refugee camp.
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We sent our drone over today, and it looks like the fire was just on some debris, not
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Why would people torch a would-be refugee camp?
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I don't support violence of any sort, of course, but I think it's an expression of the frustration
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of the community in Kulak, who really has no other way to speak out.
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You'd think that putting a 500-person urban refugee camp in the middle of this area of
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Getting a doctor, getting services, social services.
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Putting 500 needy foreign men smack dab in the middle of that is only going to make things
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If you were going to build a high apartment building here, if you were going to build an
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office building here or a shopping center here, there would be hearings.
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And the thing would take years to get through all the red tape.
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But this strange approach that Ireland has chosen to put what the locals call plantations of hundreds
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or sometimes even thousands of foreign men right in the middle of residential neighborhoods
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is so stunning to me and so frustrating because there is no democratic feedback mechanism.
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All of the parties in the Irish parliament support this, bizarrely.
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Even though polls say that immigration is the number one worry in Ireland, the numbers are staggering.
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I mentioned in my video last night before we left from Toronto that the Irish government is boasting
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that in 2024 alone they have handed out 775,000 new passports.
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Now, a number of those are indigenous Irish people just getting their passport for the first time, I suppose.
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But, you know, there's a saying, oh, don't get into the conspiracy theory of replacing the population,
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even though the United Nations published a document called Replacement Migration.
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But you can't help but think of that when, for example, the little village of Dundrum, Ireland, population 200,
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Immediately, the indigenous Irish are a minority in their own village.
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And 500 migrants for this proposed plantation here won't make Dubliners a minority.
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It's not like Ireland has any connection to the places where these migrants come from.
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Ireland was never an empire, didn't colonize anyone.
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In fact, it's fought for its own sovereignty itself to expel people it's regarded as overlords in the past.
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What is motivating this country's political class to bring in one million foreigners, which has happened over the last few years?
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And I'm going to try and find out some answers to these questions in today's visit.
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Often there's men outside the colorful blocks there having a bit of a protest and a vigil.
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But I think we're here a little bit too early to see them today.
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We're going to go to the canal area where I suspect we'll see a lot of these migrants just literally sleeping in tents.
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I wanted to come here because I wanted to see what the fire was.
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And it looks like it was just a fire of debris.
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Does it belong to the mums and the kids in the Leisureplex?
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Or does it belong to the 500 strangers, many of whom came here under false premises?
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That's one of the questions we're trying to find out.
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A small house in a fairly low-income residential community.
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Obviously, the paint factory didn't disturb anyone.
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It was a place where workers came to make paint.
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you're told that 500 military-aged migrant men are going to be your neighbors.
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And if you ask questions, shut up, they explained.
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These huge concrete barricades have been brought here.
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Because this is where there was a protest encampment for months.
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And they would walk right into the Crown Paints facility.
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You can still see in between the concrete blocks,
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we saw one of those pieces of heavy equipment being torched.
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I'm told by the security guard that there is sort of a permanent protest here.
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We're just here a little bit early in the day, as you know.
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You can see some remnants of the camps and chairs.
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At times, there's up to hundreds of people here.
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And in fact, one day, there were literally thousands marching down the street.
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And the police, or the guardi, as they're called, the guardi,
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they came with their SWAT equipment with batons and tear gas.
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Some of the local lads were throwing bottles at cops.
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There's going to be an election in Ireland, pundits say, in the next couple of months.
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The reason I say unspoken is that all the dominant parties support mass immigration.
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And that's such a puzzle to me, because I'm fairly new to the world of Ireland,
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But one of the things that I always thought is the Sinn Féin party was sort of the Irish nationalists.
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They were the party that was sort of the peaceful political wing of the IRA.
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I don't know my Irish history, but that I know.
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So it's so bizarre to me that the Irish nationalists who helped give the boot to the British
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are so open doors when it's migrants from other countries.
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I don't understand how you can have centuries of resistance to foreign domination
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when it's a Brit, but roll over and roll out the red carpet
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when it's people from Pakistan or Syria or wherever else the migrants come from.
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But I think some of the ways the government is going about it here
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And some of the ways the protest is happening here, we should be aware of back home.
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I wonder if any political party in this upcoming Irish election will make immigration an issue
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We'll keep you posted as we go our way around Ireland today.
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To follow all of our reports and to chip into our crowdfunded journalism,
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And one of the beautiful features of the downtown of the inner city is the Grand Canals.
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There's so many people who are just out for a walk or a jog or a bike ride.
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You can really take a look at it on this side here.
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I want to show you what's all this fencing, this kind of riot control kind of fencing.
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Well, it's because hundreds of migrants camp here.
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And they live here and they eat and drink and do all sorts of other things that I won't describe.
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And it was becoming such a, not just an eyesore, but a danger to the neighborhood.
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Would you want to be a young woman going for a jog by yourself, passing by hundreds of foreign men who have a culturally different approach to a young woman out for a jog?
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And so bowing to public pressure, the government finally removed the tents.
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But it's just atrocious what they've done, erecting these hideous fences.
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And then you've got these crowd control fences.
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It's for hundreds of foreigners that used to turn this into, well, really an urban refugee camp.
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See, when you had hundreds of migrants camped out here, you could see the problem.
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It wasn't hidden and it caused stress and conflict because it was so obviously something was out of joint.
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What's happening across Ireland is that hotels and community centers and nursing homes and institutional buildings have been commandeered by the government at very high prices in many cases to provide free housing to those migrants.
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So they're swept off the streets and into hotels.
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And, you know, we were in the little village of Dundrum, a gorgeous four-star hotel and country club going to house hundreds of foreign migrants.
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In fact, so many that it'll be larger than the village population itself.
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Dundrum has about 200 people living there and they're bringing in 280 military-aged migrant men.
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So they're moving from this bizarre display, this shocking display of urban refugee tent camps into a less visible way of housing the migrants.
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It's still displacing, for example, Irish homeless people or Irish people who need help with accommodation.
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And in the case of Dundrum, it's utterly changing the character of the village.
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You can see so many people coming out for a walk.
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Right now, they only have this eyesores to look at, but it may revert to what we saw earlier.
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Here's a reminder of what it was like when I visited a few months ago.
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I wonder if there's just men here, if there are women too.
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He, uh, oh, it looks like he is going into one of the tents.
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Um, I have sympathy for the people in these tents, obviously.
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One of the things I would ask them, if I encounter someone who's willing to talk and able to speak
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And how do you feel with your current situation?
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And how do you feel about hundreds of thousands more migrants being brought in?
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I want to know who they are and what they're doing.
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If you're going to give them some help, give them some help.
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You just want to get your wages, man, you know?
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Well, there's a fellow who wasn't happy with us here.
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I don't think I'm in a position to help these folks, and I don't think that's my job.
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I think that's more the job of the Irish government.
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Perhaps he doesn't want attention being put on these people, but surely he can't think that this is good.
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I think that's for the Irish government to do, the Irish people to do.
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Perhaps he thinks that we're going to be biased in some way.
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I don't feel like I have a bias, other than I suppose my instincts are there's only so much absorption that a country can have.
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Ireland is obviously being taxed, and I think Canada is too.
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You know, there was one fellow who said he was from Palestine, could be.
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I don't think Ireland has taken anyone from Gaza.
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That may have just been a fashionable statement by the refugee.
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I can only imagine how he would be aggressive towards women on this street.
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Can we talk to you a little bit about what's going on around here?
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Hey, bro, you see the filming people go to jail, man.
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Whenever I ask people why, they say it's to please globalists at the UN or the World Economic Forum.
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I find it strange that people would sell out their own country for the appeasement in favor of foreign oligarchs.
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Another answer that I find more credible is that it's just money.
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There's an industry that's cropped up around these refugees.
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So, for example, the people who own the hotels that are rented by the government, the people who are the social workers, the countless NGOs, they're all getting tens of thousands of dollars per migrant.
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The lawyers, those who cater to them, people who like to see housing prices go up and like to see wages go down, which is what happens when you bring in massive numbers of low-skilled workers.
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So, I think that the answer is partly ideological, partly the woke critical race theory of Irish self-hatred, which has infected most Western countries.
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But I think at the end of the day, it's just plain old cash.
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Enough people are willing to sell out Ireland for, you know, the cost of a hotel or an NGO program that that's how they're doing it.
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For all my reports from Ireland, go to migrantreports.com.
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It's so rustic and hearing the sound of the little waterfalls on the locks and it's so peaceful.
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And yet, along the sides, there were hundreds of tents with military-age migrant men.
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So, you can see they put these fences to keep them out.
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They've come back and then they shoot away, come back, shoot away about five times.
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Anyway, I talked to a couple of people because there's so many people just going for a walk or a bike ride.
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It's the kind of place where you might go for a date and then sit down on a little park bench.
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And it's notable how many young women are along this path.
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And I mention that because when you have hundreds of military-age migrant men camping out here, it changes the safety dynamic.
00:33:46.520
Anyway, here's two Irish people who stopped to talk to me as they were walking their dogs.
00:33:54.300
Yeah, because my six-year-old friend is coming for pizza later, so she's very artistic.
00:34:15.200
We were here a few months ago and there were lots of tents with migrants.
00:34:19.460
And I understand that they come and then they're kicked out and then they come back and they're kicked out.
00:34:30.040
And my understanding is our government decided to stop providing housing for male refugees.
00:34:42.040
But then the council blocks anywhere that they could put the tent.
00:34:45.320
Do you think they're real refugees or do you think some of them might be taking advantage of Irish hospitality?
00:34:51.540
I don't think anybody would do that for a laugh or to take advantage of.
00:34:57.220
I mean, we know they're coming from areas of the world that are either war-toned or have civil conflict or else they're, I guess, some of them now even, if they are economic migrants, it's because the global north has caused climate chaos and people can't make a living where they are.
00:35:18.260
So you think climate change is why they're here?
00:35:21.860
No, I think we're playing out because of the reality that we put up six, eight Hiroshima bombs worth of energy per second into our atmosphere.
00:35:34.400
It's big changes coming, like that will lead to civil unrest and about a third of humanity outside livable zones.
00:35:41.260
And so I think Fortress Europe is preparing itself to make sacrifice zones.
00:36:05.440
So why is Ireland, a tiny country, the only place for, there are no other Ireland's for the Irish.
00:36:12.300
If Ireland's not there, I don't know, like it's the only place for the Irish.
00:36:18.600
And why is Ireland the place where so many migrants can come and some of them burn their or throw out their documents when they arrive?
00:36:31.940
I just wonder if you're being a little bit, I don't mean to criticize, but you sound credulous.
00:36:41.820
Sounds like perhaps you're the kind of person that someone from a low trust society might take advantage of.
00:36:49.340
You look like a lovely high trust society, a wonderful woman who's collecting beautiful things.
00:36:56.180
I don't mean to be mean, but I think someone might take advantage of you.
00:37:00.040
Well, I'm not, I guess I consider myself to have a lot of privilege.
00:37:03.680
I'm not worried about being taken advantage of.
00:37:05.980
I'd happily pay more tax if the tax went to not funding fossil fuels and arms, but to creating a safe haven from people fleeing justice and justice.
00:37:17.520
And my guess is that half of them would love to come to this beautiful place if they could.
00:37:27.640
Ireland had 8 million before the great hunger of famine.
00:37:30.480
So do you think maybe we could take, so maybe a few million more people from Pakistan and Somalia.
00:37:36.760
I mean, I think this, I think the narrative around migration is incorrect.
00:37:43.200
People aren't made aware that there's always been movement of migration.
00:37:50.660
And then only since the nation state has there been some notion of, which is only like a 19th century phenomenon, has there been some notion of like us and them.
00:38:02.400
And the Irish have been throwing off occupiers and oppressors for centuries.
00:38:10.340
There are about 40 million people around the globe who claim to have Irish origin.
00:38:15.200
And they were people to leave because of oppression.
00:38:18.160
So I think that's why you find many people identify so well with the Palestinians.
00:38:24.280
And we're the only white nation in Europe who haven't been a colonial power.
00:38:30.340
But you have a tremendous feeling of guilt about you.
00:38:36.360
You're, you're, you, maybe things are too good for you.
00:38:43.580
I mean, you look like a lovely woman in a lovely place.
00:38:46.520
And maybe your life is so stress-free that you're importing it as a sign of good taste.
00:38:55.660
Why are you bringing in, why would you support bringing in millions of problems when you have Irish problems to solve?
00:39:04.100
Most people who come here as refugees are highly skilled.
00:39:21.920
I saw a lot of people who walked across the border from Northern Ireland destroying their paperwork.
00:39:27.420
Their very first act on Irish soil was to break the law.
00:39:37.800
Do you know a single doctor or lawyer who's been encamped here?
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I know friends who come from Romania who were doctors and engineers, and they weren't allowed to practice because their qualifications weren't.
00:39:52.260
And in Ireland, because of direct provision, people aren't allowed to work.
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So they're not allowed to contribute to the community.
00:39:57.520
But any place in the world where you have allowed that, refugees and people from poorer countries than us do all of the jobs that Irish people are unprepared to do, such as care of the elderly.
00:40:11.800
Are there a lot of single, military-age migrant men who are nurses or in care?
00:40:25.840
Let's not call them people who've had to leave their families if they don't want to go killing in a war.
00:40:34.020
They're called like cowards if they leave the war area.
00:40:49.100
If it was your brother or son who was in a war, a war, conflict area, you know, wouldn't you want them in a place of safety?
00:41:07.380
That's the only thing that's going to get us out of the kind of global interconnected crisis is to see our common humanity.
00:41:12.040
So I welcome them, but I think we don't treat them well when they come.
00:41:20.160
I mean, do you welcome them in any personal way or, like, have you taken a migrant into your house?
00:41:27.120
So you welcome them in the streets or someone else's house?
00:41:29.720
Well, I don't have a situation right now because of family health where I can take people into my house.
00:41:37.020
But I do go out with food with friends to provide.
00:41:41.940
When they were up near Charlamont, I have two friends who are Malaysians who live in Ireland.
00:41:50.760
So, in a way, I think we're wealthy and we have a very short memory when we realized only in the 80s we made movies and celebrated Irish economic refugees with fake green cards going to America because there were no opportunities in Ireland.
00:42:09.920
And we thought it was a good idea for them to cheat and get to America.
00:42:14.900
So I would rather that view of, like, rather than block everybody out in case one guy is a cheater.
00:42:25.080
My understanding is that God would say, bring them all in rather than risk...
00:42:32.700
And my first cousin took a lovely guy called Hadjar out when he came out of direct provision into our house.
00:42:40.060
And his new girlfriend is now minding her house for a month because he got engaged and he had been stuck on a ship for three years until the Irish police boarded the ship and got him off to safety.
00:42:58.800
You know, I would love to have you as a neighbor.
00:43:02.880
But I would be terrified of who you would let into the neighborhood.
00:43:06.120
I think that you are a very trusting person and you would leave your door unlocked and that would work until it didn't.
00:43:15.460
Yeah, but I'd rather stay open and vulnerable and then shut down.
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I pray that the consequences of your big heart never are wrought.
00:43:30.400
I don't want to, like, become bitter and weird and twisted.
00:43:36.280
It's a pleasure talking with you, although you make me sad and worried.
00:43:44.540
I mean, last time I was here, there were all sorts of migrants camped out on the green spaces, but that's sort of being walled off with these fences.
00:43:56.300
Some of them have been rehoused and moved up to Tala.
00:44:01.180
So they just keep coming back here, you see, because the IPW is around the corner in Mount Street.
00:44:11.420
So they come and then they're cleared out and then they come back again?
00:44:20.260
So how often have they been cleared out and come back?
00:44:35.280
But, of course, if the fences are taken down, maybe the tents come back.
00:44:42.340
They have security here now to stop them coming back.
00:44:47.600
So hopefully this will be an end to it, you know?
00:44:52.240
Well, I saw in the papers that the Irish government is boasting that they handed out 775,000 passports so far this year.
00:45:01.600
Now, some of those are Irish, but it sounds like immigration is still going full tilt.
00:45:14.860
Well, but surely if a party wanted to get votes, I mean, they would be opposed to this because I think most Irish think things are a little out of control.
00:45:22.880
Why are all the parties the same on this issue?
00:45:32.100
Yeah, they're just bleeding puppies on a string, being told what to do.
00:45:45.360
For example, hotels get a lot of money to put up the migrants.
00:45:50.960
Hotels make more money than they would normally.
00:45:55.300
Are you worried that if you criticize immigration, someone's going to call you racist?
00:45:59.420
Because that's what happens in Canada sometimes.
00:46:04.020
I know that people need somewhere to live, and I won't say the majority, but a lot of
00:46:16.060
You know, like the likes of Ukrainians and things like that.
00:46:22.560
I mean, Ukraine, everyone knows there's a war there.
00:46:26.080
And when you have women and children, you can understand it.
00:46:29.560
But that's different than these military-aged migrant men, single men from places like Pakistan
00:46:38.140
Oh, it's totally different because we don't know where they're from.
00:46:42.140
There was a stage at one time, like two of them were wanted in another country for crimes.
00:46:49.760
And they were living on this canal, you know what I mean?
00:46:52.340
There's a lot of young women jogging by and biking by.
00:46:56.360
I mean, obviously, it's very, very safe right now.
00:46:59.640
But I've got to think it wasn't particularly safe when it was hundreds of migrant men.
00:47:13.140
And to me, and it's not been racist or anything, but young men,
00:47:18.600
if they're saying they're coming from a war-troned country,
00:47:21.340
they should be fighting for their country, not coming here.
00:47:25.260
And they know that if they come here, that they'll get social welfare, that they'll get paid.
00:47:30.540
They were getting paid every time they had to be moved on.
00:47:35.560
They're getting more money than the homeless in Ireland,
00:47:46.900
They're just, you know, like, as I say, they're puppets.
00:47:50.560
And they'll do anything to keep any of the government out.
00:47:56.140
Like, they're stewarding up trouble now against Sinn Féin because people thought Sinn Féin might get the vote,
00:48:03.900
but now there seems to be trouble in Sinn Féin.
00:48:06.020
So it's, you know, like, it's a big catch-22 situation, you know.
00:48:12.060
So, you know, what do you do or what don't you do?
00:48:14.960
As I say, Ireland and the majority of people in Ireland have no problem helping out refugees.
00:48:21.380
But asylum seekers are the different thing, you know.
00:48:26.140
So last question, in a couple of weeks, there's going to be an election in the United States.
00:48:31.480
And Donald Trump has said he's considering mass deportations of migrants.
00:48:36.920
If he wins, do you think that might normalise mass deportations?
00:48:42.000
And do you think maybe the idea might catch on in other places?
00:48:55.780
The fact that everyone is against him makes me feel he's probably doing right.
00:49:01.940
Because when you're doing right, they all turn on you.
00:49:05.420
And, you know, like, I couldn't see anything wrong that he's done.
00:49:09.340
So, you know, you wouldn't know of them, you know.
00:49:13.540
Like, it's the same with all of them, you know.
00:49:19.300
So, if they don't get their way, well, then they get assassinated or whatever.
00:49:34.520
So, I've never visited, but it's a funny place.
00:50:01.060
And a cabbie saw us, and he had a few things to say.
00:50:12.000
Do you think we should draft Conor McGregor to run for political office?
00:50:16.820
We'll have to do something because we're not getting any recognition of them.
00:50:21.120
They're not recognizing anybody, no matter what you're saying.
00:50:28.480
It doesn't look like it, but it's packed inside.
00:50:31.880
They actually need reservations days in advance.
00:50:35.800
So, when we come back on a future trip to Ireland, we'll make sure we've got reservations for the Black Forge.
00:50:45.340
And while some people write him off and say, oh, he's not serious.
00:50:55.520
And I think Ireland's politicians need an enema.
00:50:58.520
Sort of like the way Donald Trump came in from outside the system and smashed the status quo.
00:51:06.780
A man of the people, not a man of the World Economic Forum or the United Nations.
00:51:11.540
A guy who doesn't care what the naysayers think about him.
00:51:16.520
You know, the media loved Donald Trump until he threw his hat in the ring and then they turned against him because he had the wrong views.
00:51:21.580
It could be that way with Conor McGregor, but I sure hope he throws his hat in the ring.
00:51:25.680
We've got a petition, believe it or not, at draftconor.com.
00:51:32.640
And I think we should dust that off and see if we can't get some momentum going for the lad.
00:51:40.260
What do you think of the idea of drafting Conor McGregor to help save Ireland?
00:51:47.300
He could do better than any politician, I'd say.
00:51:51.720
We're doing interviews with people on the street about Conor McGregor and should he run for political office.
00:51:59.920
Do you think he would shake up the political system a bit?
00:52:02.940
Yeah, because I think he's happy to say what the people want to say.
00:52:06.560
He's not scared of what the elite would think of it.
00:52:10.820
Do you think he would sort of upset the apple cart and smash what needs to be smashed like he does in the ring?
00:52:18.000
No, it's smashed as me, but I think it could do well.
00:52:20.740
Now, do you think the media would turn on him if he did that?
00:52:29.120
Do you think he would be, I mean, in America, there was a famous wrestler, Jesse the Body Ventura,
00:52:36.620
And Arnold Schwarzenegger went on to be a governor too.
00:52:39.000
Do you think Ireland would take the leap and vote for a non-traditional candidate like McGregor?
00:52:46.000
If Conor didn't think that, I don't think he would say that.
00:52:51.320
And obviously you can tell from my accent, I'm not actually from Ireland.
00:52:56.740
But yeah, if you actually speak to Irish people, Dubliners,
00:52:59.580
they will tell you the exact same things that I'm telling you.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,
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to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.