It is estimated that US governments will spend $296 billion over the lifetime of immigrants who have come into the country in the last two years.
| From the narrow coastal road out of continental America’s most southerly town, where the cruise ship tourists enjoy their fruit daiquiris and snorkelling, a rickety boat suddenly rises from the horizon on distant shoals.
The Cubans will add to the 29,338 illegal immigrant arrivals in the Miami area in the four months to January – four times that of the previous corresponding period. This year’s influx will add to a financial cost that is growing fast. The day before the attempt by the Cubans to arrive in the US, the Sheriff in charge of the southernmost area in the US, Monroe County’s Rick Ramsay, toldthat he believed immigrants were more likely to seek to enter a country illegally if they felt the government of the day was softer on borders.“People have come to the United States because this administration sent an early message that, ‘borders are open, you’re welcome. Come on, we want you.’ And that incentivised people,” Sheriff Ramsay said.
The Royal Australian Navy is not taking any chances. It revealed last month that it had started providing “surge” support, including more ships and surveillance aircraft to Australia’s north. Vice Admiral David Johnston told a Senate estimates hearing that the Australian Defence Force had received a formal request from the commander of Operation Sovereign Borders for extra patrols.
There is the damage to the environment of scuttling hundreds of boats with oil and fuel on board, the soaking up of policing resources needed for other essential activities, the risk of allowing criminals into the country, and finally the overall cost. McHue’s rescue efforts were praised around the world but not everyone embraces rescues at sea with open arms the way big commercial shipping lines do.Out on board a fishing charter, the first mate, whose father is a Drug Enforcement Administration agent and who speaks to me on the condition of anonymity, says he encountered 20 Cubans about 16 kilometres off the coast.
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