Dumping National’s prejudiced refugee policy

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Government set to remove ‘racist’ refugee policy, increase quotas from Africa and Middle East

The Government will remove a “racist refugee policy” that discriminates against people from Africa and the Middle East, and increase the quota for those areas.

On Friday in Palmerston North, Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway announced a raft of other changes to the three-year refugee quota policy – including allocating 50 per cent of the quota to the Asia-Pacific region – in an effort to help Australia with its refugee crisis.

In 2009, the National Government introduced a family link policy requiring refugees from these regions to have an existing link to New Zealand in order for them to be eligible to resettle.

It really says something about how out of whack our intelligence settings were in light of the Christchurch terror attack when policy was to limit refugees from Africa and the Middle East.

While it isn’t acknowledged, these restrictions were put in place as a way to limit and thus protect us from radicalisation from those regions. Turns out we should have been restricting Australians.

We are blessed to live in a peaceful nation far from the eruptions of conflict, and I believe that places unique obligations upon us to take in far more refugees annually.

1500 a year is pitiful.

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We should be taking in 5000 per year because there are many places around the planet where fellow human beings live in terrible pain, and yes, while that would require more resources and wrap around services, that’s the responsibilities we take on as a good global citizen.

We also need to expand that number of refugees in recognition of the impact the climate crisis will cause.

Globally, the need for safe haven will be enormous, we must take up the obligations of being one of those havens with good grace and basic charity.

15 COMMENTS

  1. Nope. This is a big disagree.

    Our role as a global citizen is to ask countries why they aren’t doing enough for their people, and why they are failing. If they were doing right, their citizens wouldn’t need to be refugees from their own lands.

    In a civil war, it is the factions of that country that need to stop and ask themselves who they are impacting.

    NZs role should be to point that out. Offer mediation if necessary.

    Our role should never be as a subservient backwater that lets in “refugees” from failed states, when we cannot even cope with our own refugees from poverty.

    Our focus, first and foremost should be at home. Secondly, our Pacific neighbours. People from African, Indian, European and Middle Eastern countries should not be given an open door to reside here.

    I vote left, but this refugee policy allows NZ to be seen as a soft touch. Your support for 5000 refugees a year, when the government has no clue about how to build STATE HOUSES, refuses to upset the private market, and has given up on protecting New Zealanders, is plainly ridiculous.

    • Correct. When the government is, as reported, paying up to $300 a night to house NZers in motels, and yet some still unhoused, it is illogical to bring in more people who (presumably) won’t be bringing their own means of independence with them. It’s a cliche, but there is something in the old saying about charity and home.

      And the anti-Australianism implicit in this piece is unbecoming (declaration: I hold joint NZ/Oz citizenship).

    • +1
      We have a local crisis, while I think NZ should take more refugees, they need to clean up the local situation for housing and infrastructure first and stop the flood gates on temporary and permanent residents which is circa 300,000 last year.

      The refugee policy was also about protecting the refugees because it is less likely to turn out well when refugees don’t know anybody, probably suffer mental health issues and need a lot of specialist care that NZ can’t even provide for it’s own people.

      The refugee policy was not banning those nations it was about having more support for the refugees themselves by wanting them to have existing family ties here!

      Even when they do, we are getting very damaged people who then go around and damage other people by raping them, which is not acceptable!

      Here is an example of how refugees need a lot of support, can need a lifetime of resources, while also committing criminal acts and raping local people… but hey, who cares about the reality and locals when the media announcement looks great for the 5% wokies.

      Family of refugee judged a ‘danger’ to women struggle to get him deported

      “The courts have reached a stalemate over what to do with a “dangerous” serial sex offender and refugee who cannot yet be sent back to his home country – even though his own mother and lawyer want him to go.

      Instead a judge has ordered Mohyadin Mohamed Farah to be detained as a “special patient” so the Government has time to decide what to do with the “troubled” refugee declared a risk to women.

      Farah was declared unfit to stand trial for raping and assaulting a woman but was back in Wellington District Court on Thursday after the struggle to decide what to do with him hit a wall.

      Farah arrived a Somalian refugee in New Zealand in 2001.

      His had served time in Kenyan jail and had offended here by 2002.

      A judge told Farah in 2006 his stalking, kissing and groping strangers – thinking women owed him sexual favours – needed to stop, remarking: “You are proving to be a menace to the country which has given you refuge.”

      https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/73475936/

      Also a big issue for the sex criminals who are coming to NZ and get permanent residency here… we are lowering the standards in NZ for women and children via pedophiles with the current policies that do not protect women and children, not raising them.

      Rapist wins case to be allowed to stay in NZ
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/327784/rapist-wins-case-to-be-allowed-to-stay-in-nz

      New resident convicted of sex offending twice, won’t be deported
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11837608

      (Surely we should be able to attract less criminal refugee’s and migrants and have a zero policy to criminal activity by deporting offenders immediately, and being very careful about refugees that can not be deported? and actually have a policy in place to protect the local communities?) .

  2. ” It really says something about how out of whack our intelligence settings were in light of the Christchurch terror attack when policy was to limit refugees from Africa and the Middle East. ”

    Indeed. Who would have ever imagined that such an horrific evil could be perpetrated by a person who looked like an ordinary man on one of our streets. Who would have imagined that here, in a many ways blessed country, a monster would recreate the hell from which his victims thought that they were now safe.

    Minister Galloway has initiated right and proper first steps and govt must ensure that the necessary infrastructure and support services are put in place better than some other countries have done, so that newcomers are able to live secure and productive lives, in a new peace, in which there is a role for us all.

  3. Aotearoa’s population is approaching 5million. Doubled in my lifetime. I can’t see this has made the country better, richer or more equal for the common man. The primary export industries can’t support more than this number and grow the individual well being of all the population. Immigration of the last 30 years while it may have helped property owners has simply depressed wages of workers and locked kiwis out of the quarter-acre dream. Think how much better off the whole populace would now be if the population had remained at 3 million. Over immigration has caused a housing crisis. Millions of tourists further stress our environment. If we want to be haven that’s great but wouldn’t we only want to invite people in such a small number that those people learn to fit in and be like us.

  4. Upsize the state housing, WFF, and the domestic abuse organisations and justice system wokies…

    From being married at 12 to a 40 year old polygamous man who beat her, to having her family try to kill her entire family, to having 38 children. Great to see cultural values and practicality are aligned with the woke policies!

    Meet 37 year old Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye who has 38 children!
    https://www.happenings.com.ng/society/2017/04/26/meet-37-year-old-mariam-nabatanzi-babirye-38-children-photos

  5. Don’t forget the sense of entitlement
    Search for a Race Relations Commissioner on hold as applicant sues Minister of Justice
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/107711681/search-for-a-race-relations-commissioner-on-hold-as-applicant-sues-minister-of-justice?rm=m

    (Poor recruitment from government is nothing to do with Racism, it is just incompetence of being able to select all the candidates in a timely manner and work out if they are qualified or not before offering them the job, and happens to all races, locals born here, are actually are not even considered for government roles as they are drugged out and lazy so are the most discriminated against because they are never appointed and if they were, they would be offered a lower salary) https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/107080064/derek-handley-receives-compensation-after-being-dumped-as-chief-technology-officer)

    Now we have a much wider vision of race relations which has traditionally focused on Maori which is then being widened for other agendas by lobbying to get more and more resources and government positions for new people coming into NZ “transform the Race Relations Commission into a “vibrant and effective office, particularly with respect to marginalised immigrants”.

    Sadly when you read the statistics on poverty and suicide, you can work out the most marginalised races in NZ are still those that are existing, aka Maori and Pacific Islanders who were born here and Pakehas with mortgages and children on wages are the highest growing group in poverty…

    • savenz – Who knows how half these appointments are made ? Ex District Court Judge Barry Lovegrove – with interesting work experience here and overseas – applied to be Race Relation Commissioner. I gather that he never heard back.

      When he asked why he had not been short-listed, he was told that he wasn’t short-listed because they didn’t have a short list.

      Then Susan Devoy was – I believe – shoulder-tapped for the job.

      I happened to briefly meet Mr Lovegrove before I knew all of this – he talked with great passion about the predicament of specific Maori communities up north of Auckland – one area in particular which I can’t recall, but I went home and researched it – smaller dairying negatively impacted on by Fonterra; I think he worked and taught in Hong Kong; I kind of had the feeling that he’d have been an outstandingly good RRC.

      • Clearly government recruitment processes have A LOT to be desired!

        Sounds like part nepotism part wokism, and apparently they only allow one agency to post government job adds, not have it open which is probably a big part of the issue.

        With regards to Susan Devoy, I’m pretty sure the Natz wanted someone who knew nothing about race relations, being good at sports is not necessary the same thing, and that is why they shoulder tapped her.

        The current focus is on overseas born people to come into NZ and take it in a ‘global’ direction because Rogernomics wants to destroy the national identity into one of drugged out lazies also ticks a whole lot of woke boxes.

        However it tends to be creating very poor outcomes for indigenous and people born here especially when only 100k can buy a MP list seat from the Natz to change policy, and anybody with a trade deal or crying racism, gets their way from Labour.

        Sadly a small donation seems to go a long way to political appointments and/or awards aka Zhang was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, a handful of magic beans or a few $$$ donations seems to go a long way politically in NZ.

  6. Best of luck with those Somalis! They are the most violent people I have ever had the misfortune of meeting. Placing them in Northland is a recipe for a gang war.

    The real reason for this change: It’s Jacinda’s ticket to a job at the UN once she’s ousted next year.

    • Andrew, We can’t bring in hordes of energetic single young men who stay unemployed, and are often, or usually damaged, and end up in trouble, or causing trouble, as seen in some European cities. The slum working class estates of Paris could challenge even well-balanced individuals.

      That’s why we have to have decent support programmes in place, job training, housing and so on, but most importantly, bear in mind that many come from hell holes through no fault of their own.

      Recent NZ govts have failed miserably to provide or enable these essentials for own people, and need to put our own house in order before we can help outsiders in an optimum way. It can be done – there are some very good people outside of govt, who work hard, and often voluntarily, and if parliamentarians can match their compassion and vigour and integrity, then we could, ideally, produce some model communities, but there needs to be cross-party support because (a) We’re dealing with other human beings and (b) it is in this whole country’s interests to have productive well-functioning communities. Anyone up in Parliament who doesn’t accept this shouldn’t be there.

      • I think that’s a bit of a cop out saying New Zealand society is unable to make idle hands productive again when China raised hundreds of millions of poor peasants into middle class. New Zealand can’t compete with China’s numbers but we can match China’s and America’s standards of living.

      • A start to the refugee issue is our government to sternly condemn the sale of arms that end up killing all these people, get rid of neoliberalism that is stealing indigenous peoples resources around the world, stop flying everyone around and wanting more and more tourists as export, and creating the refugees in the first place with policies that support dictators, arm sales, operation Burnham situations, and climate change that trade deals don’t mention because they are contributing to it!

        But hey, NZ government would never do that, they might lose a butter contract or China might stop buying up our farms!

        Trade to human rights violators is WAY including the west, and trade to the east (or anywhere they can sign a deal too) is way more important than morals and condemning killing thousands of people!

  7. no more people until the roads, schools, houses and any other infrastructure is built. This needs to stop now i heard people moaning this morning like it was their right and it really pissed me of they think they can bring their mum and dad here. What for our free health care, pension etc no we don’t want any more people no matter how much they earn until we have houses for our own people and i ain’t talking about those who can afford a 500k home either. If they want baby sitters they need to do the same as us we put our kids in childcare cause we have to work now to survive this policy is carp and they better be careful cause the coalition promised less migration

  8. What an ‘achievement’, Labour and NZ First will only let the family of RICH and well earning immigrants in, how ‘caring’.

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