Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.

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