{"id":694164,"date":"2026-05-25T20:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694164\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:01:16","slug":"tale-of-two-nations-australias-immigration-continues-to-rise-under-labor-as-trumps-america-puts-us-to-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694164\/","title":{"rendered":"Tale of two nations: Australia’s immigration continues to rise under Labor, as Trump\u2019s America puts us to shame"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a tale of two countries.<\/p>\n

Two very, very different countries.<\/p>\n

One country\u2019s government is talking about return migration, or \u201cremigration\u201d – a term sweeping across group chats, newsfeeds and now policy documents across Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder President Trump, the State Department will facilitate remigration – not replacement migration,\u201d a post by the State Department read earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States will not legitimise global compacts that enable mass migration into America or Western nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JD<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the other country\u2019s government – our government – is continuing apace with the very mass migration America is now trying to stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cNet overseas migration is forecast to be moderately higher than previously expected in 2025-26 and 2026-27, which reflects that migrants on temporary visas are departing Australia at lower rates than in the past,\u201d the Treasurer announced this month.<\/p>\n

Two governments, two very different outcomes.<\/p>\n

In the very same week, Australia\u2019s Labor government announced that immigration had blown past its already high targets, marking yet another year of out-of-control mass immigration.<\/p>\n

This means Australia is now on track to tick over 30 million people by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralia\u2019s population is forecast to grow by just over one million people to reach 29,367,000 by the end of the decade, budget papers show,\u201d revealed News.com.au\u2019s Frank Chung.<\/p>\n

The comparison is stark but simple.<\/p>\n

One government chooses to control its borders, the other either doesn\u2019t want to or doesn\u2019t know how to.<\/p>\n

One government puts its people first, the other either doesn\u2019t want to or doesn\u2019t know how to.<\/p>\n

One government is talking about remigration, the other is pushing full steam ahead with mass immigration.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the difference a serious government makes.<\/p>\n

And those aren\u2019t the only immigration wins President Trump\u2019s administration has stacked up.<\/p>\n

US colleges have reportedly seen a 20 per cent drop in foreign enrolments this spring.<\/p>\n

Border crossings dropped to the lowest levels since the 1970s, according to data published last year by the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

H-1B skilled visa applications have dropped 25 per cent, with $100,000 fees imposed and tighter family restrictions.<\/p>\n

And the government is arresting around 1,200 illegal migrants a day.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Australians have been crying out for action on immigration for years.<\/p>\n

Labor\u2019s response has so far only been to deliver more, more, more.<\/p>\n

For all the protests, campaigns, media scrutiny and political pressure, immigration has stayed well above target.<\/p>\n

All the tax adjustments and negative gearing changes in the world won\u2019t fix wages or the housing crisis while immigration remains this high.<\/p>\n

No, the only way to change immigration once and for all is to change the government.<\/p>\n

\"Political<\/p>\n

While momentum is shifting behind One Nation, the party nevertheless faces an uphill battle to reach the level of support Trump\u2019s MAGA movement now enjoys.<\/p>\n

It will be a long slog for Australia\u2019s right wing.<\/p>\n

But if America has shown this country anything, it is that this fight is one worth having.<\/p>\n

Because the only way to fix the country and end mass immigration is by getting Labor out.<\/p>\n

You win by winning.<\/p>\n

Jordan Knight is an adviser and director of the National Conservative Institute of Australia. He is a Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute, known as the nerve centre of the American right, and the founder of Migration Watch Australia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a tale of two countries. Two very, very different countries. One country\u2019s government is talking about return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,338546,44],"class_list":["post-694164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-immigration-us-and-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}