Here’s the story of one country which was being overrun with illegal immigrants and how they put an end to the lawlessness:
In the past seven months, not one single illegal immigrant arrived on Australian shores. Not one single boat has docked on the Australian coastline.
Compare this to the preceding four year period: over 50,000 illegal immigrants arrived on Australian shores. More than 800 boats. Upwards of 1000 people drowned at sea. A budget blowout of more than 10.3 billion dollars.
Those that arrived were given welcome hampers, mobile phones, plasma TVs, housing, medical and other household items- all at a cost to the taxpayer.
And the overwhelming majority of those that came were not genuine refugees; many of them turned up in designer clothes, and with mobile phones. They weren’t fleeing persecution; they just wanted a piece of Australia’s generous welfare state.
Like President Obama has done to America, a left-wing government dismantled Australia’s border defense and their generous welfare state made it a magnet for illegal immigration.
Australian voters rebelled and installed a new government headed by Tony Abbott in 2013:
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.
To the surprise of no one (except left wing ideologues) Australia’s illegal immigration problem has been solved through strong border control and a respect for the rule of immigration law. A combination sorely lacking from Obama and a wide swatch of congressional leaders.
