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EU referendum and Brexit
Brexiters are missing the point of Australian-style immigration
It is bizarre that Conservative leave campaigners want a system that would actually double immigration to Britain

It is wrong to say that Britain has no control over its border with the rest of the EU - more than 6,000 undesirable EU nationals have been turned back since 2010. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
Alan Travis Home affairs editor
Wednesday 1 June 2016 13.26 BST Last modified on Tuesday 19 July 2016 13.04 BST

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It has always been a bit of a mystery why the British Tory leave campaigners want to introduce an Australian-style immigration system that is designed to increase that country’s population and which even Migration Watch has said would be a disaster if copied in Britain.