Right now there are over 100 thousand asylum seekers in Australia, with around 2000 more arriving every month.

Many of them end up living in the shadows of society, and the opposition is calling for a crackdown on immigration. 

Abul Rizvi is a demography expert, and former senior official at the Department of Immigration, he tells John a crackdown would be too little too late to have a crackdown.

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