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| From the Editor |
| Those spreading hostility towards asylum seekers to Ireland often throw out numbers. |
| But each number, of course, is a person. And, they ignore what, in fixating on limiting numbers, blocking routes for travel and opposing sanctuary, they would condemn other people to. |
| Block safe routes? Look at Tunisia – where the European Union gives millions for “border management” – and where immigrant men, women and children trying to pass through are picked up and dumped in the desert, without food or water. Many die. |
| Stop offering shelter? In this week’s issue, a homeless Palestinian asylum seeker in Ireland says that, after assault and abuse and rough-sleeping in Dublin, he just wants to go home to the West Bank. He has even withdrawn his asylum claim. |
| He tried to get help to return under a scheme run by the International Organisation for Migration. But they won’t right now, they told him. |
| His home is too dangerous, they said. |
Who Watches the Watchers? 