>>Australia almost eliminated this by decreeing that arriving illegally by boat, especially after destroying your papers, means you're sent to processing centers in Nauru or New Guinea. There's accusations of inhumanity leveled against the Aussies for this, but it reduced the people smuggling boats to almost none. Those processing centers have since closed but several hundred immigrants refuse to be settled in New Guinea or to be flown home at Australian expense, instead protesting in the closed centers to try to pressure Australia to take them. It's all very sad, and ugly.
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>While not pretty, at least it is MUCH smarter than Merkel's do-gooding, allowing people without papers in with less processing forced by law onto citizens (ID card with machine readable photo, finger prints for passport). Turning people without papers away would give too much leverage to smugglers and others, but allowing those lying about identity and/or state of birth to stay is totally stupid.
>Anybody coming into a country as a refugee and immediately starting to game the "new" system should forfeit any right to stay automatically.

Some of that immigration will be solving the problem of who are the young workers who will be funding your pension in the future (and wiping your bum when you reach that advanced age :-))