Since we are just speculating, I hypothesize that not sharing a land border with relatively poor countries has something to do with it. Australia does take in i

Since we are just speculating, I hypothesize that not sharing a land border with relatively poor countries has something to do with it. Australia does take in immigrants, but since most of them come legally they can pick and choose. They don't get the huge number of illegal immigrants USA deals with. This is not a diatribe against immigration, I'm an immigrant myself.