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Rishi Sunak warned Ireland against sending police to patrol the border for illegal migrants as the row between the two countries deepened last night.
The Prime Minister said the government in Dublin must keep its promise to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic after it announced 100 Gardai officers would take on immigration enforcement duties.
His Irish counterpart Simon Harris was forced to make clear that there would be no police checkpoints.
But he repeated his claim that there is a legally-binding agreement between the two governments to return failed asylum-seekers, something No 10 has disputed.
As the war of words continued between the leaders, the Irish authorities stepped in to remove hundreds of migrants from a makeshift ‘tent city’ around the International Protection Office where they have to register on arrival in Dublin.
Rishi Sunak has warned Ireland against sending police to patrol the border for illegal migrants
Some of those sleeping rough on the streets of the capital are known to have first crossed the Channel to England before travelling to Ireland to avoid being deported to Rwanda.
Unionist MP Carla Lockhart used Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday to accuse the Irish government of ‘hypocrisy’ for asking police to patrol the border for asylum-seekers despite having
