highly unlikely that anyone could swim from PNG to New Zealand.
The distance from the southernmost point of PNG to the North Island of New Zealand is 2560 miles / 4119.92 km
Agreed.
I was being intentionally absurd.
My point was, nobody gets in to NZ without people knowing about it.
If you do the math, the US equivalent is about 11 million illegals entering annually. AND America is 37x larger than NZ.
The NZ authorities could cut this off today. If they wanted….