I work in a public policy school. I think the fundamental issue with an asylum system is the unpredictability of it, because it's about global events. We can't actually predict how many people are coming, unlike refugee resettlement, where we have numbers and we know how many people are coming.
I think the policy challenge is the unpredictability and making sure that there are services available for people without knowing how many people are actually going to end up coming, because it's a right. It's a right to claim asylum. We can't just turn people away. When they come here, we need to have a system for assessing those claims.
