Australia has been bedeviled with illegal immigrants boarding boats and floating towards their shores for the past few years.
The problem got worse once word got out that the Australian government giving illegals welcome hampers, mobile phones, plasma TVs, housing, medical and other household items- all at a cost to the taxpayer.
Australians demanded a change and in 2013 they changed the government and their immigration policy.
As he couldn’t stop the boats overnight, in those first few months, his government said to the illegal immigrants arriving to Australia two options: “You’ve arrived in Australia illegally. As a result, you will never get to stay here. You will never get to be an Australian. So, you have two options- we will take you to a processing center, and you will wait in detention for your asylum application to be processed. Or we will fly you home free.”
In addition to this, the Abbott government got the Australian military to enforce its border protection, intercepting boats, turning them around, and even towing them back. And it applied pressure on Indonesia, by demanding they secure their own border.
Soon, the message got out, and the boats have stopped.
Here is Australian General Campbell, Commander Operations Sovereign Borders explaining a sane illegal immigration policy in just one minute:
https://youtu.be/rT12WH4a92w
