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A. Tsang
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New Zealand Immigration Policy
December 21, 2007 - 05:07 AM
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http://www.expatexposed.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=438
written by trapinNZ
Well do you think the current govt started the immigration? If yes, then you are wrong. I came here when National was ruling. Nothing changed since then except tightening some rules to make the life of immigrants more miserable.
I remember back in the late 90’s one popular politician saying in an election campaign “We don’t want elderly Asians mucking around in our supermarkets” (cheetaih add: end up there are more elderly Asian mucking around in NZ supermarket in 2008) and was broadcasted in national TV with a background movie of some asian elderly people shopping in a crowded shopping center.
He won the election with a huge majority and became a prominent member of the then ministry. As an election promise, the ministry tightened the rules, stopped benefit to the immigrants in the first 2 years, increased the points, introduced tough English tests and started brining in the so called “right” people from the UK, USA, Canada, SA, Europe etc who are beleived to be good in "integrating well" with the great kiwis.
Every election year, this drama continues. I appreciate that being a small country, you need some thing to score your votes on and it is hard to find any meaningful one considering the ridiculous nature of this country.
In my view, getting rid of the current govt in hope of a better emigration policy is like “moving a lump from you right leg to the left to treat it”. In reality lump will be there!!!
The simplest solution is publicize websites like this and spread the truth among the potential immigrants before they waste their whole life’s saving to “build” a country that don’t care about you but only cares about your money.
This post was edited on: 2007-12-21 at 05:24 AM by: A. Tsang
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Re: New Zealand Immigration Policy
December 21, 2007 - 05:08 AM
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1. NZ Govt has a 2 sided approach, in terms of boosting the economy, they think “why don’t we just bring truck loads of people here from somewhere, at least they will bring some money and in the first 2 years, if they don’t get a job, they spend their foreign currency here, and if they don’t like here, they can leave after spending their life long saving”.
For this they promote the country by aggressive campaigning abroad. At this point people of NZ don’t care to agree or disagree.
2. When people arrive here, line up for jobs, bring their family here, then the NZ public start disagreeing with the mere presence of migrants here, they find faults with the way they behave (differently than a kiwi), the accent, the overseas qualification etc.. etc and try to discriminate them in the employment market with as much as vigor as possible. They start looking at the immigrants as “strain on their education, health and other social systems” and govt just ignore this as if they are in agreement with the general population.
3. The party and the politician who does the most immigrant bashing gets the most share of the MMP votes and become advocates of foreign policies and gets very high ministerial portfolio. During the election campaign, they bash emigrants aggressively and score votes. Looking at the margin they get, I should assume that people and the govt are in agreement against immigration. If people don’t agree with the bashing, they won’t vote.
4. When the same politician gets into power, start thinking about the NZ economy and boost emigration!!
Of course there are foolish, ignorant and vulnerable people out there including myself that believe in the aggressive invitation campaign to later become an accessory for the govt sponsored emigration drama.
This drama continues until web-sites like this/immigrants/previous victims stop the innocent would be victims from becoming foolish actors..
Wait to see the next election campaign and the newest immigrants would know what I mean. I have been witnessing this practical joke over several elections.
This post was edited on: 2007-12-21 at 05:19 AM by: A. Tsang
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