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Fri 09 Sep 2008Ireland of the unwelcomes?
The recent case of an Indian tourist who complained of discrimination at Dublin airport has added to allegations that immigration procedures are too arbitrary and too open to individual officers' discretion, writes Ruadhán MacCormaicMigration Correspondent
TWENTY-TWO YEARS, and the trepidation is still there every time Angie Chong makes the short walk from the aircraft to the passport-control counter at Dublin airport. The earnest young student, who left Malaysia to study medicine in Dublin in the late 1980s, is now a practising doctor with an Irish husband, a young child and an adoptive accent.
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