Are you saying one of them is behind me now?! *spins around* I can't see em, sneaky rats.
Now back to them immigrant types ^_-
For Australia, the illegal immigrant problem is perhaps more marked due to the relatively high costs of security given our landmass and the expansive oceanographic region needing to be secured; that combined with a small population to cover that cost as well as any expenses incurred in order to support illegal immigrants and to a lesser extent, to that proportion of legal immigrants who apply primarily for the purposes of welfare for themselves or their families. That said, I support legal immigration, particular of skilled workers in areas where we do not have enough qualified or experienced individuals and particularly of people who are without dependants (I am not in favour of bringing them all over simply because they managed to have one family member legally migrate).
I have no doubt that immigration is going to become an even bigger crisis in every Western and wealthier nation, as climate change and the failure of Green Revolution agriculture takes a greater and greater toll. I would have discussed this with the other poster previously, but we never got to it, because of his insistence on focusing his attacks on the original inhabitants of the land.
Australians, like Canadians, Americans, and Spanish, Portuguese and other White European descendents in Latin America, have to acknowledge first that they began as immigrants who overran the lands they conquered and displaced and often obliterated the original inhabitants, before they get up on the soapbox about illegal immigration.
Up till the present, Canada has evaded most of the problems of illegal immigration by maintaining a robust guest-worker program in agriculture. I have never been able to figure out why the Americans abolished their guest worker program decades ago, because most Mexican and West Indies migrant workers who work on the vineyards and fruit farms in Southern Ontario, where I live, have no interest or intentions to stay in Canada over the winter. They stay and work here for up to six months per year and go back home to relax and enjoy a relatively prosperous life back home. The American experience betrays sinister motives of the business class that maintaining a system where illegal workers could stay in the U.S. would drive down average wages in agriculture, and then in construction and every other class including retail. When a scandal erupted regarding the large number of illegal workers working for the giant retail operation - Walmart, questions started to be asked about how such a huge, sophisticated operation, that tracks every aspect of product and sales from their stores was unaware that they had hundreds or thousands of illegal workers working for them!
And, like I said previously, the growing problem now is that American and other multinational interference in local agriculture, is forcing millions of migrant and itinerant farmers off their land in Latin America and Africa, as the land is taken to grow cash crops for export. And, it needs to be added, that modern industrial agriculture and factory farming of meat and dairy production is generating an ecological and climate disaster, that is using up fresh water and destroying topsoil all around the world. Agricultural yields are trending lower, while at the same time the global population is still increasing. The resulting wars, failed states, and civil wars are a byproduct that is forcing migrations that will end up on our shores and affect us directly. The best way to deal with the problem would be to attack the destructive economic system that is creating the mess, but so many complacent, comfortable Westerners aren't yet willing to do something that might require some sacrifice of luxury on their part.
My english really is worse than I thought. 
