THE Government is seeking EU funds to get illegal immigrants from Nigeria, China and Brazil to leave the country.
It wants to tap into the European Return Fund (2008-2013), which is worth almost €700m, to pay for the return of illegal immigrants.
The top five source countries for asylum applications in the first 10 months of this year were Nigeria (499 people), Pakistan (216), China (169), the Democratic Republic of Congo (91) and Moldova (79). But the overall number of applications (2,354) is the lowest since the mid 1990s and far below the peak of 11,634 refugee applications in 2002.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/state-to-tap-immigrant-return-fund-1966147.html
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