Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for the question. I can assure you that we do not want the immigration problems that the United States have in relation to the Rio Grande. If you want to talk about numbers coming into the United States, I can assure you that they have a much greater challenge than we have. That is partly the problem with this debate. There is a sense by those opposite—

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