TUV chairman Keith Ratcliffe said:
“I was contacted on Tuesday afternoon to be alerted to the fact that a bus had been pulled over shortly after crossing the border near Newry. The bus was boarded by immigration officials who bypassed white passengers but demanded passports from those who were from a minority ethnic background.
“It would appear that the liberal, progressive Republic is not above racial profiling when it comes to efforts to stop migrants coming in via Northern Ireland.
“It is telling that having spent years campaigning against any infrastructure on the border for years, Dublin is quite capable of recognising it when it comes to migrants.
“Equally, there are many who will recall that the Republic was unwilling to mount any sort of checks to prevent terrorists who had committed crimes in Northern Ireland from fleeing across the border where they found sanctuary”.