FactCheck: how many asylum seekers are entering Ireland via the UK and what does it mean for Rwanda?

that more than 80 per cent of asylum seekers in Ireland were arriving via the land border with Northern Ireland.it shows his Rwanda policy is working as a deterrent.

Irish officials say that people applying at the IPO are likely to have come from Northern Ireland by land. Though we should say that the IPO data is not a perfect indicator of the number of people arriving from Northern Ireland.that there are various reasons why an asylum seeker who arrives by plane might still make their claim at the IPO instead of at an airport. This includes the fear of being put back on a flight. So it’s possible that some of those IPO applications were made by people who’d entered Ireland by plane, not over land from Northern Ireland.

The Irish Department of Justice said that changes to immigration policy – including accelerated processing of applicants from certain countries – may impact migration trends into the Republic.The Irish justice minister says that 80 per cent of people seeking asylum in Ireland have reached the country over the land border with Northern Ireland.

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