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Great Agbonlahor is a six-year-old autistic boy who was deported from Ireland to Nigeria on the August 14, 2007, along with his sister and mother. He had lived in Ireland since the age of two. The deportation order was one of the last acts in office of Michael McDowell, a former Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. Many people oppose the deportation on humanitarian grounds and are campaigning for it to be overturned. However, he was illegally present in Ireland as he and his mother and sister had previously been present in Italy, and EU law requires asylum seekers to apply in the first EU country in which they arrive, rather than choosing another country. This is to prevent forum shopping.
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