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Another day, another family refusing to leave NZ after being caught giving fake address so they could access free food vouchers that other poor in NZ then were not able to access. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/124546633/family-to-be-deported-after-wrongly-claiming-food-vouchers-during-covid19-lockdown
Not sure why immigration NZ is allowing so many families into NZ from overseas that almost immediately need welfare, which is now effecting all the poor in NZ, who are getting poorer and poorer as demand soars.
If a person comes to NZ as a ‘carpenter’ but somehow doesn’t earn enough to live it, it contributes to employers dropping wages in that industry, (remember there were wage subsidies operating during Covid so there was no excuse). Having lowered wages stops more locals training to be carpenters, more suicides in the industry as construction wages and conditions plummet, more social services needed… etc etc
The trick is to avoid people coming to NZ in the first place who will fail, and that starts with our poor immigration service. Years ago they found that there was fraud from immigration members to people from Kiribati – time to make sure the same is not happening again allowing nepotism and corruption to determine the visas.
Migrants to NZ used to have to prove they had enough funds to support themselves in NZ before they were allowed a visa, and for decades now they know that it is pathetically easy to ie and just borrow the money.
There are literally billions of people who are poorer than those in NZ, so if our immigration rules are becoming anybody who comes to NZ on an immigration visa, can then claim they need to stay as they would be worse off if they went back…. this is clearly effecting the ability of NZ to continue social welfare services and upgrades needed to those already in NZ.
Public housing waitlist cracks 20,000 with over 2000 new households in a single month
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300144823/public-housing-waitlist-cracks-20000-with-over-2000-new-households-in-a-single-month
The number of food parcels distributed by the Auckland City Mission each year between 2008-09 and 2019-20, food parcel demand increased almost 6.5 fold, from 5,329 to 34,120.
Woke and right wingers importing more poverty in NZ, to blow up our social welfare system by overloading it with demand.
Yikes! More high social needs people to NZ shores.
Family harm incidents in managed isolation hotels causing almost half of all police callouts
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/03/family-harm-incidents-in-managed-isolation-hotels-causing-almost-half-of-all-police-callouts.html
The Occupation of the American Mind (original 84-minute version) https://vimeo.com/277492186
The Occupation of the American Mind documentary Over the past few years, Israel’s ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world — except the United States. The Occupation of the American Mind takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S. Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. media culture, the film explores how the Israeli government, the U.S. government, and the pro-Israel lobby have joined forces, often with very different motives, to shape American media coverage of the conflict in Israel’s favor. From the U.S.-based public relations campaigns that emerged in the 1980s to today, the film provides a sweeping analysis of Israel’s decades-long battle for the hearts, minds, and tax dollars of the American people in the face of widening international condemnation of its increasingly right-wing policies. Narrated by Roger Waters / Featuring Amira Hass, M.J. Rosenberg, Stephen M. Walt, Noam Chomsky, Rula Jebreal, Henry Siegman, Rashid Khalidi, Rami Khouri, Yousef Munayyer, Norman Finkelstein, Max Blumenthal, Phyllis Bennis, Norman Solomon, Mark Crispin Miller, Peter Hart, and Sut Jhally.
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