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McDonald said the party is ‘absolutely not’ losing support from more progressive voters because of its immigration stance.SINN FÉIN LEADER Mary Lou McDonald has backed her integration spokesperson Claire Kerrane in a controversy over the Roscommon-Galway TD’s call to see deportation considered for any immigrant who commits a crime.

McDonald said that Kerrane’s view was “common sense”, but differed with her party’s integration spokesperson and said that it should only be considered for a “serious violent offence” and “not for misdemeanors or petty crime”.

She also maintained that the party is “absolutely not” losing support from more progressive voters because of its immigration stance.

Yesterday, Kerrane told The Journal that deportation for “any” immigrant who commits a crime “should be on the table” but added that she’s “not pushing for it to become party policy”.

Kerrane added later that she was not trying to “to conflate people coming to Ireland and crime” and that there is “no link” between the two.

But McDonald today said that she broadly supports Kerrane’s view on the party’s first proper day of the election campaign in Dungarvan, Co Waterford where Sinn Féin is seeking two seats.