Like many parts of the UK, the illegal immigration racket is the biggest money racket that has ever been in Irish history as all of our town in England, Scotland, Wales and now reland have become inundated with illegal immigrants, changing the character of those towns forever, but in Ireland, this has now exploded into violence.
Ireland faces significant unrest as anti-migrant protests, and public disorder broke out in Ballymena town centre in Northern Ireland following a protest reportedly over an alleged attempted rape of a teenage girl by Romanian migrant teenagers on Monday, with police saying a number of missiles had been thrown towards officers and where locals turned on houses, some of which were occupied by migrants. News reporters stated that they were surprised that the unrest wasn’t in Belfast which has had similar tensions.
The areas that have exploded are areas where social justice is embedded following the “troubles in Ireland” where it is not unusual for locals to take justice into their own hands, or via paramilitaries. While the main paramilitary groups from “The Troubles” period (like the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), Red Hand Commando (RHC), Ulster Defence Association (UDA), and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)) still exist, the most serious current terrorist threat in Belfast comes from dissident republicans such as the New IRA, the ONH (Óglaigh na hÉireann) and the Continuity IRA, all of whom reject the 1998 Belfast Agreement and pose a significant threat to security and stability
Tensions exist following migrants being housed in the working class areas in and near Belfast, often working class Unionist areas, where Irish culture is different and women are matriarchs and respected in society and where this often clashes with the migrant influx has a different mysogenistic attitude. News media reported that hundreds of protesters had gathered in Ballymena in response to a case involving two 14-year old boys who appeared before Coleraine Magistrates’ Court earlier in the day, with the charges being read to the teenagers by a Romanian interpreter, who are accused of sexually assaulting (attempted rape) of a teenage girl in the County Antrim town.
Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson said the violence “was clearly racially motivated and targeted at our minority ethnic community and police ….. and has acted as a catalyst for public outrage, drawing attention to long-standing frustrations…..The large turnout this evening demonstrates the strength of feeling in the local community – feelings which were, in the main, expressed peacefully, …… but sadly, the actions of a small number have cast a shadow over what was, for most, a lawful protest…..The vigil was initially peaceful as it made its way towards the Clonavon Terrace area of Ballymena….but a number of masked individuals then broke away from the vigil and began to build barricades, stockpiling missiles and attacking properties in the Clonavon Terrace area. Elements of the crowd then turned on to police and attacked officers with petrol bombs and masonry”
Local MP and TUV leader Jim Allister said tensions had been growing in the town over immigration, saying “Within Ballymena there has been rising concerns about the sheer scale of migration into the town and that would have been a factor in the wholly peaceful protest…..It is very distressing to see scenes of violence on the streets of Ballymena…but tensions have been building in the town for a considerable period of time”.
A Romanian mother of three, who lived in one of the targeted houses, told the PA news agency that she is scared to stay in the area and her children were asking why they were being attacked.
Following the SNP “We welcome Migrants” stance, similar tensions already exist in Glasgow and elsewhere in Scotland. Glasgow, currently the largest dispersal area for asylum seekers outside of London, is facing a crisis due to the escalating costs of supporting them, which have risen significantly from an estimated £26.5 million in 2024/25 to a projected £79m in 2027/28. As a result, Glasgow Council has expressed concerns about its ability to continue accommodating new arrivals and has requested a pause in the dispersal of asylum seekers. Glasgow has been the largest dispersal area for asylum seekers outside London, meaning it receives a large number of people who have applied for asylum and as a result, some officials have expressed concerns that the current system of asylum dispersal is damaging social cohesion in the city with the result that Glasgow Council has requested a pause in the dispersal of asylum seekers to allow them to address the social and financial strains with reports stating that “the asylum system is wrecking ‘social cohesion’ in Glasgow because the city is over-encumbered with migrants both sent to the city by the Government and those actively seeking out Scottish hospitality”.
Allan Casey, Glasgow City Council’s convener for homelessness, is reported to have said “Although Glasgow has received over 4,000 migrants sent to the city by the Home Office while their applications are being considered and 240 others in emergency accomodation, since February 2024, a further 1,000 people have also come to the city from elsewhere in the UK in order to access homelessness support, prompting fears that the number of people applying for accomodation is becoming ‘unsustainable’ and that Glasgow has asked for a pause on asylum dispersal because of the ‘unprecedented pressure’ it is placing on the city’s housing and cohesion.
Cllr Casey said a failure by the government to do more could provoke ‘social unrest’ and see ‘bad actors’ blame future financial woes on ‘asylum seekers and refugees….The city is currently using 4,100 of its 6,735 available bed spaces for those awaiting asylum decisions according to figures provided to the Home Affairs Committee last month – more than triple the amount the Home Office says it should be using But the system you are presiding over is damaging social cohesion here, and we want to meet with you to discuss that’.
This is a volte face for Glasgow City which was internationally renowned for its welcoming attitude to those seeking refugee status – despite declaring a housing emergency in the face of growing homeless applications.
But Cllr Thomas Kerr, Reform‘s sole representative in Glasgow, called the warning shot an ’empty gesture’ and said ‘The SNPs declaration of a housing emergency almost a year and a half ago was nothing more than an empty gesture – since it was declared they’ve done nothing bar their usual grievance politics and blaming everyone else …… Locally, Glasgow has the ability to streamline planning applications and make the process more attractive for investors, but instead they’ve doubled down on attacks.’ He also hit out at the UK Government for failing to tackle small boats crossings which “represent 32 per cent of total asylum claims last year….. Glasgow, and the UK generally, can’t keep accepting illegal migrants this way, it’s unsustainable and creating huge division within our city.
Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland director, said “Today, families from immigrant and minoritised communities across Northern Ireland are living in fear.”