Maggie - the best way to get to Australia and make it your home is to come here as an authorised migrant like you and your family did or via a government issued 457 working visa (the ones you want to abolish).
Visa overstayers have been around since time immemorial in all countries, all of them. Most of them end up moving on or going home.
But if you feel xenophobic about them like you do with 457s you can take comfort that DIAC has more resources available to track long term overstayers now that the government has put a stop to tens of thousands of people smuggler citizenship shoppers arriving here every year to rook the system.
Is that such a good thing?
Have never said I want 457 abolished, merely that more stringent rules be implemented and that they are enforced.
Not talking about my family, not relevant despite you trying to bring it up all the time.
So if it has been going on forever, lets forget it and concentrate on people smugglers, economic migrants, this appears to be the only topic that you want discussed. Does this satisfy your racist views?
Sorry, but if we are looking at organised migration and numbers, I would start with those that are staying here illegally and not separate them from those that are not genuine refugees. Because unlike you I don't believe that all of those that have sought to make the hazardous trip are not genuine and I unlike you am prepared to concede that some may be country shoppers.
By the way you haven't commented on the link I posted.
Are there any children still in detention?
There has to be a better way to deal with this problem, (neither major party has got it right so far). I am not sure what the answer is but I don't think it is the one that is in practice now.