Dublin destroys its latest tent city as Ireland struggles to cope with migrant influx blamed on Britain’s Rwanda policy [Video]

Irish authorities have dismantled another ‘tent city’ in Dublin as the country continues to face an influx of migrants, many of whom have arrived from the UK.

Asylum seekers had pitched more than 100 tents in a makeshift camp along Dublin’s Grand Canal, a short walk from the International Protection Office, as the government struggles to provide them with accommodation.

Pictures show the early morning operation, which involved crews checking tents were empty before they were spray-painted with an ‘X’ and cleared onto a truck by a ‘grabber’ machine.

The encampment sprung up along the waterway just days after more than 200 asylum seekers were cleared from a similar makeshift camp on nearby Mount Street. 

The removal comes amid an ongoing row with the UK government over asylum seekers crossing the border from Northern Ireland, with claims that they are doing so to avoid deportation to Rwanda.