Only time for a fleeting post this morning, in the
form of a question. We currently have the 279 peaceable - by all accounts - Chinese
students of the story that broke yesterday, spending their parents' hard earned money in New Zealand, while getting
an education. What’s the problem with this?
Our immigration department, if they can extract
themselves from nosing through the private lives of their clients, are
now going to spend unknown quantities of my taxpayer money, rounding these individuals
up, hounding them, and deporting them.
The result will be everybody involved loses. The students (whom seem to be innocent victims of a fraud in China,
and will be devastated to have their studies interrupted), the educational
institutions they're at in New Zealand, and all those local businesses providing goods and
services to the families involved.
In a free, classical liberal society, so long as immigrants do not initiate force or
fraud and comply with the rule of law, and do not tap into our welfare system, then we can only gain by their presence, and thus they are welcome. There’s too many laws. Laws upon laws upon laws upon laws. Save
us from this rule bound moribund Social Democracy.
(Postscript: I’d welcome someone who can give an update
to the English family that featured on Close Up last week. The parents and one
daughter, in that case, have been given citizenship, but a second, remaining
daughter, was to be sent back to England because ‘she had been working here,’ which was a technical foul under law applied immorally, and with no compassion. Yet another appalling decision by Kate Wilkinson on the back of her 380 page Food Bill.
I can’t find out what has become of this family.)
It is really difficult to get Visa and then work Visa, and Citizenship in New Zealand from foreign countries.
ReplyDeleteI had to apply all my energy last year to get Visa for my Thai girl friend from Bangkok to NZ. The NZ Immigration in Bangkok is actually a Thai Emigration department, and they are severe.
I wrote to the then Minister John Coleman and Kate Wilkinson about various matters with a view towards making the thing more civilised. Neither Coleman nor Wilkinson deemed to reply to me.
I received a call from Wilkinson's secretary, an arrogant foreigner who told me I was wasting my time.
These people in Bangkok want to read your emails to woman to make sure you are not buying a whore in. I suppose that they have to be careful
I am happy to report that immigration NZ within New Zealand are bloody good, even if difficult to get hold of, They welcome Thai people as immigrants and they despise the foreign departments especially Bangkok.
It is costly to be a sponsor to an immigrant and you have to be dedicated. I wish we could get rid of Wilkinson, she is an idiot
Can't disagree with your last sentence.
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