Ireland will act to send asylum seekers back to the UK, after Sunak points to Rwanda-plan success

A makeshift refugee camp outside the Irish Governments International Protection Office, in Dublin City centre, in June 2023. London believes its plan to send undocumented migrants to Rwanda is sending them to Ireland . Ireland 's prime minister Simon Harris warned on Sunday that Dublin would take action to stem an influx of asylum seekers from Northern Ireland , the British territory across the border.

Last week, Dublin's Minister of Justice Helen McEntee -- who visits London on Monday -- told a parliamentary committee she estimated 80% of those applying for asylum in the republic had come over the land border with Northern Ireland. McEntee would introduce the proposed changes to the law on Tuesday to put the new returns policy in place, he said.

McEntee is expected to discuss the new returns policy when she meets UK interior minister James Cleverly in London on Monday.

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