@AdamRyan Yeah, Eastern can go back to Aus where they have this immigration thing cracked
You are comparing apples with oranges on that one. Good try but no banana🤣.
Im in Australia and they are two completely separate issues. One is immigrants and one is illegal entrants.
The article you pasted refers to our current issue with immigration. Essentially, with an aging population and lack of younger workers we do t have enough people for either skilled or unskilled work. Hence legal migration. The problem is that we also don’t have enough housing, chance what we have is incredibly expensive. We also don’t have the infrastructure to support further population in our main cities where workers are required, roads are currently gridlocked, hospitals now starting to become unworkable with unmanageable waiting lists, schools are jam packed with many kids now in demountables (taking over play/remaining open space) and having to stagger recess/lunch over 3 sessions in many metro schools. You get the drift. So people don’t want any more immigration as it ‘adds to the problem’. However, we have another problem of not enough workers both skilled and unskilled, so for example building of more housing and infrastructure is at a real go slow as not enough workers available. It’s a vicious circle we can’t seem to break out of at present.
Totally unrelated to that, being the argument you presented via link pertaining to the above, is illegal immigrants, mainly ‘boat people’. Essentially, boats, lots of risk, death and strategies that the country implemented to deal with that. Essentially, first strategy being to turn the boats back - military intercept them, destroy the boats and give everyone a lift back to where they set off (have agreement with ‘safe’ countries they depart from for this. Essentially they can only set off from countries in which they are safe, they just don’t want to live in them as they are economically shit. Our country pays these countries for their trouble. If they get too far and military can’t do this, they are sent to another country where they are processed. If found to be a genuine asylum seeker they can stay there. If not, they get deported back. Takes many years for the process. Either way they never get to step foot in Australia. This has had an enormous effect on the number of boats setting out and saved many lives.