my paper

Why should someone be rewarded just because they 'risked their life'? There is nothing about risking your life that makes you inherently deserve reward, you could risk your life jumping off a bridge and that isn't worthy of reward, only ridicule. I think you should focus on how they're risking their lives often to save their families imo, or that their lives are already at risk in their home countries.

- Fair point, the smuggling industry only exists however because of people being smuggled in the first place, so if you punish those people then there'd be less demand on the smuggling industry and they'd (theoretically) go out of business anyway. If we made it that every single person who comes illegally to Australia would get shot on the spot, then of course people would stop trying to come here BUT that's when you enter the issue of morality/ethics and you should focus on how inhumane it is to punish those being smuggled.

- Only argument here is that people could say that "current" immigrants are not contributing to society and are only worsening it/staying on centrelink, but try throw in some Statistics or something to counter that because as far as I'm aware that's blatantly untrue. Playing the devils advocate here (not necessarily my opinions, but you asked for rebuttals...)

- Why should someone be rewarded just because they 'risked their life'? There is nothing about risking your life that makes you inherently deserve reward, you could risk your life jumping off a bridge and that isn't worthy of reward, only ridicule. I think you should focus on how they're risking their lives often to save their families imo, or that their lives are already at risk in their home countries.

- Fair point, the smuggling industry only exists however because of people being smuggled in the first place, so if you punish those people then there'd be less demand on the smuggling industry and they'd (theoretically) go out of business anyway. If we made it that every single