A campaign to regularise the 30,000 undocumented migrants living in Ireland has handed a petition into the Department of Justice.
The petition has 4,000 signatures – and has been organised by the Migrants Rights Centre.
They say most of the undocumented have lived and worked in Ireland for many years – and they have paid taxes while they are here.
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One of them is 40 year old Maritas from the Phillipines who is a child minder – her four children live in her home country and she says she cannot return home to see them because of her status in Ireland:
