The lax immigration laws being pushed by the Brussels elite are unpopular in a lot more places than just Hungary. Earlier this month, protests against the increased level of migration broke out in Dublin, Ireland. This, in turn, sparked counter-protests, with the leftist activists labelling the concerned side as ‘Nazis’ and ‘scum’.
At one of these protests, a Hungarian man was filmed. The video of his discussion with an anti-migration protester has garnered quite a lot of attention online. It has been reported to X (formerly Twitter) a number of times, accumulating thousands of likes. The most popular upload of it has 380,000 views and 3,800 likes, as of the time of writing this.
According to the man himself, he has been living in Ireland for 17 years, and has fathered two children in the country. When asked if he is part of the protest against migration, he answered he is, then explained in a thick Eastern European accent:
‘Our kids will grow up here, and this will be not good for them, this [sic!] 500 [migrant] males in a small town will change everything’.
The video sparked a discussion in the comments, with right-wing critics of mass migration explaining that they are fine with vetted, skilled foreign workers coming, such as the man featured in the video, as long as they are also willing to assimilate and contribute to society—a view that, apparently, some of the migrants share.
People posting in favour of the Irish anti-migration movement are using the hashtag #IrelandIsFull on social media.
Opposition to migration has been growing in recent years, as we saw in the case of Giorgia Meloni and her Fratelli d’Italia party’s election win in 2022. In 2023, an even further right populist politician Geert Wilders and the PVV party won the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, by a sizable margin.
Most pollsters and political analysts expect a shift to the right in this year’s European Parliamentary elections, partly fuelled by opposition to mass migration from the Middle East and Africa.
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