"Room to grow" isn't about literal land area. It's about how much our infrastructure and services are keeping up with population growth.

If we were investing in housing, education, public transport, other infrastructure etc at a good enough pace the issue would be really different (although racists and xenophobes would still exist - there will always be an 'afraid of the other' element to this debate). So instead of framing it as a migration crisis, it's just as much an infrastructure crisis, a housing crisis, whatever.

The most difficult political reality is that our GDP growth is reliant of the exploitation of migrant labour, that's just a fact now, and both Labour and National and even now the Greens have played into that narrative for so long that GDP growth is basically the be all and end all of measuring economic performance. This is what we call a 'strong economy' and we will actually have to accept a hit to GDP growth, some businesses failing that can't afford to not exploit migrants, which will hard core affect hospitality and tourism, and some things will be more expensive - that's just the real impact of getting this under control.