Jesus wept! This goes from bad to criminally negligent!
‘The system is f…..’: Immigration staff say bosses knew visa system didn’t work, and ignored it
Immigration New Zealand staff have been warning their managers for a year that the under-fire Accredited Employer Work Visa(AEWV) system has major flaws and is a recipe for migrant exploitation – but were ignored.
Concerned INZ staff say employers are being allowed to bring in migrants without any paperwork or financial checks, even when immigration officers fear jobs may be fake, paid for with illegal premiums, or the migrants will be exploited.
Instead, they say, they’ve been told to focus on faster processing times.
This is just so outrageous and the timeline gets worse and worse for Labour!
Barely a week ago, Andrew Little was on Q+A getting grilled by Jack Tame on the Worker Visa accreditation scheme that effectively trusts the 27 000 accredited to not exploit the 77 000 migrant workers.
Jack challenges the process and argues the system is only funded to review 15% of applications yet to date had barely reviewed 3% and of the 27 000 accredited, the Government had dumped only 2.
The Minister struggled to look credible as he sat with a straight face and declared the current 3% was working fine.
24 hours later Newshub is breaking a story about 50 migrant workers living in a South Auckland slum exploited by the Worker Visa accreditation scheme .
The Minister stood by his previous statements.
Then Newshub break that the number of migrant workers being exploited is now 100.
The Minister, while standing by his previous statements that barely 3% of the 27 000 accredited employers means the system is working, he does now agree that an investigation is necessary.
Then Newshub finally arrive at a total of 115 migrant workers exploited and scammed into using this accreditation scheme minus any jobs.
Andrew Little turns on the Ministry and demands to know why the system is falling to pieces.
Under pressure from the Bosses, Labour threw open the immigration floodgates with zero checks and balances and simply trusted bosses not to exploit the workers they were bringing in.
We are now told that the barest checks and balances promised weren’t even adhered to and they just rubber stamped the exploitation!
This is why we need regulation and policing of the current rules yet we won’t tax the rich to properly fund the State’s policing of Capitalism!
Thanks to 30 years of a de-unionized work force, our depressed low wage economy requires exploiting migrant labour and NZ wants to get back to business.
The simple solution of course would be universal union membership for all migrant workers.
This is not a functioning migrant work scheme, it is criminal negligence at best and collusion at worst!
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Classic!
Martyn – Thank you for bringing this up…Australia is cracking down so called “Students” from certain countries to prevent this type of situation.
New Zealand has struggled with immigration policy for a long time. The finest minds in the business, coupled with the finest minds in the public service have grunted and strained and come up with. . . . what exactly?
They say that New Zealand’s a nation of farmers. That’s right. Bent, corrupt visa farmers.
The Minister has to go.
The Department/Ministry has to get cleaned out.
What these people have done is shameful – just shameful.
The Minister will go at the election .The Ministry will go soon after along with some other poorly functioning departments.
The poor situation has come about because Little hates to listen .He was just as bad as Health Minister.
hey. at least the system is going to work perfectly foe Nat/ACT.
This latest incompetent mess is the story of this Government in a nutshell. And just before early voting starts.
On the button Ada.
On the button Ada.
The primary victims are the NZ underclass. Keep piling it on until they snap.
Most of the exploitation of immigrants is being done by foreign residents in NZ against their fellow countrymen/women.
The 115 Indian men in Auckland were scammed by Indians. The sex industry is flooded with Asian women bought here by Asians. Now we find similar South American example.
There are thousands of honest kiwi businesses and individuals among the 27,000 who, desperate for skilled workers, sponsor overseas people, help them get set up, treat them the same as their kiwi workmates. We get the honest, productive skilled workers we need and they get the chance to support their families and improve their own situation.
Why is Mister Little still the Minister?
No alternatives. As a former leader, he is one of their Stars…
Hang on a minute, aren’t theses employers standing up as pillars of our society, no bottom feeder status for them. Aren’t they exploiting their own people because unfortunately they know they can get away with it. Isn’t the problem that these these employers are lying under oath, isn’t the problem being that the government was pilloried by the same employers and all other political parties because they were short staffed. Isn’t it about time that these employers were outed for who they really are lying cheats.
Face it, Labour wants more low/no job migrants so that they can stimulate the economy in some dark ages post 1980’s globalism, and virtue signal that they are doing something, because they have no new ideas.
Labeen haven’t worked out that voters don’t want these fraud migrants coming because as hundreds of thousands of low/no prospect migrants pay for a visa and ghost job each year into NZ, and keep coming and working under the table or for ghost wages or easy prospects for criminal activity.
Plenty of money for Pacific Island feasts, no money for stopping illegal workers getting legitimate visas into NZ based on false and criminal declarations.
Minister Little is still the minister because there’s no one available to replace him.
Why does our government want to keep criminally and illegal immigrants in NZ?
Immigration New Zealand budget blowout kept overstayers in NZ
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/immigration-new-zealand-budget-blowout-kept-overstayers-in-nz/M4SWQ4XXCYOS5WV2I7DTJDCH5M/?c_id=1&objectid=12111595
Plenty of money to spend on cultural parties and ministries, billions on dual systems etc, but somehow not enough money to deport criminals and people who should not be in NZ – as more in NZ increasingly don’t feel safe here as perpetrators are seemingly allowed to do what ever they like as there is not the ‘money’ to fix the system and provide enforcement?
Not sure our paltry prisons, justice, social services and mental health can provide for the world’s high needs who seem to be allowed to come and never leave NZ, while taking up major amounts of services that NZer’s don’t get anymore.
Little and others in the current LP lineup are supposedly decent sorts of blokes. I sincerely hope they’re giving INZ/LI/MoBIE failures more than a bit of Yea/Nah attention.
Some of the stories I know of as a result of lil ‘ole NuZull that punches above its weight’s Immigration policies and their implementation (or lack of) rival those of the sorts of things you’d come across on CNN’s ‘Freedom Project”, or the worst of the worst sorts of things you’d find in the world’s shithole jurisdictions.
It’s way past time comfy little PMC managerialists in senior and upper muddle management positions were actually held to account. There is a process – such as it is, and I’m not sure why Labour politicians haven’t been using it. Perhaps it’s something to do with the PMC revolving doors between politician and senior public servant.
Labour politicians should have been hammering the rebranded state services commissioner. The failures in INZ and the LI are a matter of record ffs.
I alluded to some of them in my comment the other day on this thread:
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/08/20/andrew-littles-migrant-exploitation-arrogance-gets-bashed-and-it-aint-pretty/
STUFF’s Steve Killgallon came out the next day or day after with more revelations. RNZ’s Mediawatch did a thing on journalists (i.e. actual journalists doing what they’re supposed to do – Lincoln Tans et al. There are others – e.g. Gill Bonnett, Michael Morrah, Dileepa Fonseka and others), AND there are people you’d expect Labour politicians to listen to: Kalotis, Treens, McClymonts – the list goes on!).
Whether by design, sheer casual attitude, incompetence, conceit or whatever – some of these senior PMC ‘officials’ that politicians have a faith-based relationship with have contributed to Labour descending into the doldrums.
The Ministry for Everything needs to be broken up. Hughes needs to go, as do a few other departmental heads. They’re nor serving any useful purpose, and indeed if many of them went on leave for a few months, we might find things actually function better.
I’m always amused by the way senior ‘officials’ and others warning of the trauma caused by departmental restructures. One thing the corporatised, KPI’d, cost centre approach did, was to make it easy to (for example) take INZ and the LI away from MoBIE – as far as budgets and managerial line reporting and responsibilities. As for the Info Tech side of things – merely a matter of access, security permissions etc.
Isn’t immigration policy somewhat the same across the two big parties? No excuses for sloppy management however – did Minister Little not expect holes in the system and insist on a proactive approach to quality control. Perhaps too much urgency under pressure from lobby groups. Perhaps funds hard to come by to ensure the enforcement of checks and balances. Whatever, pretty sloppy. And the buck does stop with Little. But anyone thinking it’ll be demonstrably better under the Nats, or a Nats coalition, is simply dreaming. Or dishonest. Whatever the electorate think of it, sourcing of overseas labour to meet skill shortages on the one hand, and to prop up profit margins on the other is here to stay – bar an existential crisis. No matter what colour the government. Migrant exploitation is part of that picture. But it needn’t be if stricter controls are made on overseas agents AND local employers are held to account. Good luck with that!