Still haven't answered the question.
ps if the issue isn't the numbers for you, how come you obsessively repeat your mantra of 'how many?"
and what happens to the 12,001 Max?
I ask it because no one wants to answer it.
Just like how you don't answer now.
Say we increase the intake to 40k what then? What happens if more that apply?
If you don't think that massive number of people who, by your own admission, are desperate for a new life wouldn't jump at the chance to live in a 1st world country you are out of your mind.
Apparently poor desperate families with no money can travel halfway around the world, without a passport, pay off people smugglers and get into countries.
If they can why can't others?