Criminal migrants/refugees? are we sure all or even most of them fit that description? isolate just one group, not in America but here in say Melbourne, that apex gang is not a failure of our migration /refugee problem, it is a failure of our PC infested justice system,they, like thousands of WASP crims have the keys to their prison cells in their pockets in fact they never see a cell

unravel,

You said, "... One of the more lucrative activities is gun-running."
Just give a reference, please.

Wrong Belly,
It is the failure of both the immigration and the Justice systems.

Immigration, firstly because the moment we find a group do not integrate or respect our laws we should deny further entry of that group. i.e. Those that continue with FGM and under age marriage, for example.

The Justice system, must be made accountable by adequate sentencing for crimes committed and there must be more jails constructed to cater for our expanded population. The politicians are responsible for both.

Politicians, state and Federal, continue to ignore community requirements.

Looking at the TV coverage of the asylum seekers/illegal immigrants entering the US one is struck by their emaciated appearance, one hopes that the improved diet in the US camps will soon fill them out.

Hi there CANEM MALUM...

I like the style of your contributions I must say. Apropos entering the manufacturing of arms that PM TURNBULL envisages. It's not so much small arms I believe, though we have the capacity to produce some of the very best military small arms in the world, at the SAF, Lithgow in NSW.

We have other military arms applications, like the medium distance, guided weapon systems, anti-tank long range guided systems, and quite a number of other similar systems, of which I've not been appraised. Of course he may well have meant small arms, but that market place is very well protected by other more competitive markets, from the US, Europe, and Great Britain.

Our only real impediment to having considerable success in this area, is of that of a moral imperative. There are many folk who find the supplying of arms to Nations with a poor human rights record, as utterly abhorrent, and will resist those endeavours in every way possible. We shall see I expect, in the fullness of time?

Banjo,

"... and there must be more jails constructed to cater for our expanded population."

Fully agree, but only if they are constructed in the desert country and with no road access and a water supply by pipeline that can be turned off by remote control.