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Originally Posted by Hugh
How would we stop illegal immigrants coming over from the EU, through Ireland, to NI then mainland Britain, without a hard border?
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Because it’s very easily to put in hard checkpoints at Airports and ferry terminals. As they do now
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Originally Posted by jfman
A migrant from the EU can enter the island of Ireland legally anywhere in the Republic. They can walk across the non-exitant border into the occupied six counties.
Presumably we don’t intend to put more stingent controls on travel from Northern Ireland to Great Britain?
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That may be a genuine element for negotiation. If the N.I. Assembly agreed we they could say freedom of movement applies to eu and N.I. But not GB. Unless DUP block, which is fine.