Migrants and double standards

Thu May 15 2014 - 01:03

Sir, – For years I have read in your newspaper the frequent accounts of illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers being ordered to be deported from Ireland.

Equally frequently I have read of our elected leaders making ongoing representations to the authorities of the US for an amnesty to be granted to undocumented, illegal Irish immigrants in that country. A clear case of hypocrisy and double standards, surely? – Yours, etc,