Videos of people being loaded on to aircraft are much more potent than statistics, writes Conor Gallagher
On Thursday night, members of the Garda National Immigration Bureau carried out Operation Trench 9, the deportation of 31 Georgian men and women – and one child – to their home country.vehicles usually used to transport prisoners before being loaded on to a specially chartered aircraft with the name Smartwings.com on the side.
Whether dedicated deportation flights are an effective means to address immigration pressures is a matter still up for debate, however. Some flights were leaving almost empty because people were obtaining last minutes stays on their deportations from the courts, officials complained at the time.
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