The New Zealand immigration system has for a very long time now been nothing but a giant, continuous scam – and what’s more everyone knows it.
It is a corrupt system of corrupt policies and corrupt people.
If there is anyone out there who doesn’t know this – who are they?
To put it another way: does anyone consider that the immigration system is not corrupt, is not a continuous scam?
I think everyone realises it, not just those in Auckland who are faced with it every day.
The immigrants themselves know it, their workplaces know it, their neighbours know it, the immigration agents know it, the immigration bureaucracy knows it, the media knows it, the politicians all know it – everyone knows it.
When the current Minister of Immigration announced the “golden visa” shower of ‘Active Investor Plus’ etc a few weeks ago whereby a low-figure millionaire could buy their way into the country all quarters acknowledged one way or the other that it was a bottom-feeding exercise of the tried and false.
A back door scam for the moderately wealthy.
We all know it’s nonsense.
The policy raises ire and cynicism so easily because the beneficiaries are the hated rich and they get to barge their way to the front of the queue offending our egalitarianism. What has been missed however is the stream of other rule changes made under this coalition government. Even before that – immediately prior to the election – Labour’s worst minister, Andrew Little, changed the rules so that the type of jobs eligible to employ foreign workers was lowered so even stop-go men and the most basic labourers were on the list!
The coalition then let in more of everyone else: spouses, seasonal, students etc.
The worst reform the coalition has made encapsulates the baked in corruption – the Accredited Employer Work Visas.
The government has set rules that the requirement to advertise jobs vacant to local people and other requirements are to now be done on “good faith” and they have guaranteed more or less that no checks will be made.
That’s right.
The most corrupt part of the most corrupt system is now being officially managed to avoid ever checking on anything. It is designed specifically to allow corruption. It is a form of national sabotage. It is corrupt – it is corrupt to consciously allow for corruption. This is happening openly and yet no one says boo.
Shane Jones made a comment recently to the effect that NZ First had tried, but no one else in parliament seemed remotely interested in dealing with the immigration problem. Jones was saying this as though NZ First had given up on it and had simply acquiesced to National and Act because the opposition weren’t going to do anything about it either. Sure, National and Labour and Act are all dependent on immigrants for growing their organisations – that’s pretty obvious at every election night party when they resemble the UN, but what Jones conveniently forgets is NZ First’s tackling of the problem when hitched to Labour from 2017-2020 was not to limit the numbers but to just change the status of the numbers so not as many were immediately eligible for citizenship.
Same absurd amount of immigrants, only they made it more difficult to move through the residency criteria. But they all become citizens at the end of the process though don’t they?
They all get to stay though don’t they?
The only difference is they became resentful at the longer wait and extra hurdles. Once they’re in there’s no getting rid of them regardless of political wants or economic needs – that aspect never changed.
NZ First is just as hopeless as the rest of them. The Greens attempted to have a population policy on a sustainable basis as a way of dealing with immigration but the predictable howls of racism from their own membership ended that in a blink. Te Pati Maori tried dealing with it when they were still the Maori Party under Te Ururoa Flavell: a Pakeha woman who stood as a candidate for the party (at Flavell’s insistence) publicly broke with the party because they wanted to limit immigration (her name may have actually been Karen).
It seems only TPM are willing to resist the influx because indigenous people can see it clearly for what it is. Indeed, the patriarch of the New Zealand colony, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, in his book “A View of the Art of Colonization” makes it clear in his conception that immigration is the foundation and continuing basis of colonisation. Without immigration there can be no colony. Immigration = colonisation. To end colonisation – as TPM understands – mass immigration must end.
You see the problem the Greens run up against that TPM does not? The only way to achieve the Green’s primary value of “diversity” of population is immigration and lots of it – you cannot have diversity (multi-ethnic and multi-cultural) without large scale immigration. The dilemma for their decolonial stance is that the more immigration you have the more colonisation you have – the more reduced the proportion, cultural influence and political power of the indigenous people. Immigration = marginalisation. And last but certainly not least the Green global wonks require free movement of population to increase their own market value as international players they fancy themselves to be.
Economically the whites need large volume immigration for their real estate and business interests, politically they need large volume immigration to keep the native voting bloc in check and socially they need large volume immigration as a class buffer between them and the native population. Everyone knows the rudiments, but if we look at the media and political discourse it appears that no-one is allowed to say it in direct terms so as not to offend the sensitivities of non-Maori. When it comes to immigration anyone wanting to limit it is Hamas, apparently.
There’s a reason why almost every former Minister of Immigration upon leaving parliament becomes an immigration consultant. The same abrupt career deviation cannot be said of any other portfolio. Former ministers of Health don’t all become health consultants, former ministers of transport don’t all become transport consultants, former ministers of defence don’t all become defence consultants and yet… odds on ministers of immigration and even associate ministers of immigration will become immigration consultants. Because the system they operate is inherently corrupt – that’s why. The minister has discretion over almost every decision and a letter from a former Minister of Immigration will circumvent most rules. The most egregious case was Tuariki Delamere’s money-go-round – prosecuted unsuccessfully by the Serious Fraud Office – in which immigrants put money together so the syndicate could transfer the pooled funds into and out of each other’s bank accounts so that they could show a personal balance far in excess of what they ever had!
Genius at one level, utterly cooked at another.
The wider system if not corrupt at least is geared to assist.
MPs assisting foreigners on immigration matters for example – they aren’t their constituents. “Kiwis” as defined by the NZ government in their official statements is anyone with any sort of residency permit no matter how limited. The Census refuses to ask a person’s nationality or citizenship status (on the grounds overstayers will be reluctant to tell the truth or fill it in at all). The majority of people accessing the Citizens’ Advice Bureaux are not even citizens – they are foreigners accessing it in the course of becoming citizens. And the bureaucracy play games such as for decades now keeping a 10,000 nominal target for net immigration so that people don’t get upset, so there’s no official evidence of the ‘Great Replacement Theory’ in action, but then having rules that ensure that number is always breached and the consequence of which is always woeful under investment in infrastructure because departments only ever plan for a 10,000 pa population increase. Every setting, every convention, every ideological consideration is aimed at expounding and allowing mass immigration. Up until recently there wasn’t even a phone number or contact to report immigration offences – the Immigration Service instead directed people to call Crimestoppers! Studiously avoiding any possible way that abuse could ever be reported has been their brief.
The situation has been chronically permissive for three decades now. Below are a few examples of the deliberately dysfunctional system from my own experiences to illustrate what occurs in reality:-
The local (Indian-owned) liquor shop: the situations vacant ad runs twice in the local paper, the position is for a shop assistant/assistant manager, relevant experience etc… but they must be able to converse in Hindi… to communicate with the owner. But I’ve seen the owner and he speaks good English. It is clearly, overtly contrived job description (and job title) to get their Indian mate, or indentured employee, in.
The local (Chinese-owned) petrol station: the situations vacant ad runs twice in the local paper, the position is for a shop assistant/assistant manager, relevant experience etc… but they must be able to converse in Mandarin… to communicate with the owner. But once again, I’ve met the owner and he speaks excellent English without even an accent! Once again to get his mate or his relative in – it’s quite clear what’s going on and any reasonable person can see it for what it is. Everyone except the Immigration Service of course.
The above had job ads in the local paper so I know what they were up to, but everyone who notices the local Indian-owned Pizza place has changed its name every year knows something is wrong, who notices yet another vape shop and another dollar store and another dairy all opening opposite another vape shop, another dollar store and another dairy and everyone involve is wearing turbans knows that something statistically impossible is occuring. Any reasonable person can see it for what it is. We all know, all of us. Everyone except the Immigration Service of course.
And for your amusement and horror these following marriage scams are from friends or people I’ve flatted with in Auckland in the early 2000s:
Chinese Malaysian woman is a flatmate of mine, she starts going out with a friend of mine. They move in together. She wants to stay in the country. They inform the Immigration Service they intend to be married. He gets me to sign the form saying I know both of them and that I have been asked to officiate at their wedding (all true). So, I’m waiting for the plans. A few weeks go by and he tells me that it’s off. He said he was at their flat and a courier arrived – she had got the Immigration documents urgently couriered rather than wait by standard post. He gives it to her when she arrives back. She tore it open immediately – permanent residency had been granted. Right there on the spot she tells him their relationship is over and she leaves. They weren’t married – they didn’t need to be for her to get PR they just had to prove they were planning on it. I gathered her sister had also done the exact same thing to her supposed fiancé a few years beforehand by the way. Absolutely brutal. He was philosophical about it, but, ouch.
Chinese woman meets my flatmate, they start going out. They’re genuinely into each other as far as I know because her mewling – shrieking like a cat being tortured – echoes through the flat when they’re fucking, so the relationship seems real (all too loudly, hauntingly real). After a few weeks he’s moving out to shack up with her. Seems legit. Don’t have to have the TV volume turned up anymore and pull the Edvard Munch scream face so that was nice. Then a few months later they’ve broken up. The story was they got married – not that he told anyone! – and then one day, about two seconds after the urgent courier drops off the PR document he came home to find her fucking some Chinese guy in their bed (they lived on the 14th floor but if she was on form he could have probably heard her from the street). Marriage kaput. Poor guy, he didn’t deserve that.
I went on a date with a Chinese girl once – she worked at the local bakery. All she was interested in was if I had a NZ passport – wasn’t faintly interested in anything else. It was absolutely the only thing of importance to her. I can honestly say it was the most intense discussion on citizenship matters I’ve ever had. Incredibly awkward – total mood kill, and needless to say… no mewling.
Indian shopkeepers next to my shop (I had a secondhand bookshop at this time) had asked a friend of mine to travel to India. He gets back and tells me they wanted him to marry their daughter over there and bring her back to NZ. They would pay him for this (low five figures). He was considering it, but he was besotted instead with their other daughter who he said was much better looking and had the most amazing green eyes he couldn’t shut up about – alas, the green-eyed beauty was promised in an arranged marriage to someone else and the parents wouldn’t budge. Ironically, he was fluent in Mandarin – he would have had much better luck with a Chinese girl!
These are just a few stories, every Aucklander will have a few. It is rife and it is visible. It’s not a nod and a whisper it’s a shrieking fucking banshee. It’s a meticulously munted system. It is broken on purpose – broken rules and broken hearts all part of the corrupt game that permeates society.
I hope the Left come to view immigration for what it is: not merely some symptom of colonisation or some deluded means to displace white hegemony – it is the act of colonisation. When the white settlers have to bring in everyone else to maintain their own position they may have conceded they themselves alone have no natural way of avoiding indigenisation, but their next best effort of pouring in many multiples more foreigners every year than the natural increase in the Maori population is still colonisation – it is the desired effect. Singapore was British too and colonised after all by the ilk of Lee Kwan Yew rather than Stamford Raffles. The raw upshot of the rights and rorts after the 1987 immigration reform that imported a million or more people to this country is that if immigration had been kept strictly at that notional 10,000 pa level since the start of MMP in 1996 there would be about a dozen Maori seats at the last general election and not 7.
Then we have the 5 million dollar brigade who will come and buy a house and dump the elderly parents in it to look after the kid while they are at uni .The kid gets the degree and NZ passport and fucks off and the old people are left here to die with no suport from the family so the NZ taxpayer has to pick up the tab .
Absolutely correct Tim and this bullshit was happening 25 years ago. A next door neighbour’ had a indian girlfriend he found out her brothers were trying to get her married off to him to get PR then she would break up. He reported her to immigration and she was gone burger within a week.
Also I had a rant about this at work 2 nights ago more or less. Immigration has completely more or less destroyed New Zealanders workers rights and wages. What I said was you folks from overseas come down here then think you are on the pigs back refuse to join a union . You know nothing about nz employment law . You bring your overseas employment law mindset with you accept the bosses word as law and don’t give a damn about us kiwis getting fukd over . Then get pr and bugger off to aussie on a kiwi passport. Where Wages are 25% better off than here because of the bullshit immigration scam that allows kiwis to be screwed over. So yes TIM it is time to close the damn door.
Refreshing to hear the left criticizing mass immigration.
This used to be the job of the Labour Party and the unions until they got captured by kindness.
Thanks Tim, one of my friends involved in the transport industry tells me that the Indians have a stranglehold on the courier industry as well. While my Christian beliefs are that the gospel is for all people the corruption and exploitation of even their own people is all the evidence you need that these people are not seeking to make the world a better place.
Yes you are correct just look at the courier vans all driven by immigrants on Self employment contractors supposedly being Business managers etc. Self employment contractors are a damn rout.
Aware of these scam marriages going back forty to fifty years ago. At the time an employer (Chinese immigrant background running a restaurant) asked my mother if she knew of anyone to marry off to employed foreign staff, who were paid well below minimum wage.
Can easily imagine how much worse it must be now.
Good article.
I understand eight Chinese men paid $16,000 each to someone who promised them jobs here and are now marooned without work or money. There must be a few more in the same position.
The Chinese Navy is not far away, and is pledged to protect its citizens( a few years ago it evacuated Chinese citizens from Yemen and carries out anti-piracy patrols).
So why do we not call them up and say, ‘seeing as you are here and these blokes need a lift home….?’
After all no point in wasting all that fuel to just come here, play’ bang, bang you’re dead’, then just go home.
Hilarious. ” Thou shalt not marry an immigrant. It’s a scam “.
Where does the name ‘ Selwyn ‘ derive from ?
Is there enough depth of marriagable talent amongst those who imagine they’re pure bred white kiwis without ending up marrying the cousin ?
Gosh , had flatmates who married Danes, Germans, Irish … is this permissible?
OToole if you can’t discuss the matter seriously is it because you are a Labour supporter? I am curious. People here have given examples and so could all the readers no doubt. I really like the immigrant food providers and workers but our government needs to understand the many nuances of discrimination. And Labour needs to learn so much more.
Don’t be silly. Of course you can marry an immigrant, but it might be wise to consider whether your prospective marriage mate is acting in good faith towards you. Just one aspect of the perennial dilemmas involved in tying the marriage knot.
Tim’s anecdotes are worthy of reflection not so much because they demonstrate the self-interested dishonesty of immigrants, as because they are evidence of the perfidy of the colonialist regime. The regime recruits crooked, deceitful and conniving immigrants because it constantly seeks to bolster the number of its “like minded others”. (It actually has an interesting way to weed out the honest ones and to prevent them ever becoming citizens. Think about that one).
We are a nation in a world which does not need more migration and cannot afford more migration. Emigrants leave their own countries for reasons that are generally less than noble. They want to make money. They want to escape the social and political conditions which they along with their compatriots have had a hand in allowing to develop, and they don’t want to stay home to clean up the resulting mess. In traveling around the world they burn fossil fuels (not many arrive on sailing ships these days) and then they fly back “home” every few years, or alternatively they have their relatives fly out here. That is one of the reasons why New Zealand is one of the worst climate offenders on the planet. Immigration and green house gas emissions are intimately linked. In other words migrants mess with the planet on a huge scale. Greens take note. You can see this behaviour among your own MPs. If you are truly green, you stay in place.
Not all immigrants are crooks but unfortunately for tangata motu all too many of them are. The ones who are not crooks are anomalies who slip through the cracks. A policy failure you might say. No doubt the regime is working hard on ways to put an end to that.
Aside from the anecdotes, Tim’s article is outstanding. He is right: immigration has always had a political side. Premier Sir Julius Vogel declared in the House that mass immigration would do more than two regiments of British troops to control and suppress Maori. Tim is also right about the Green Party. Its emphasis on the “diversity” that can only come through continuous waves of new immigrants means that the Green Party will always be hostile to the interests of tangata motu. It is no coincidence that one Green Party MP lost her seat over an immigration scandal. Those most in favour of immigration are always the worst abusers of immigrants.
I don’t object to immigrants or foreigners as individuals. I have had one living on a piece of my land for the past five years. I helped him to build a cottage there. He is not a New Zealand citizen, and doesn’t want to become one because he doesn’t want to give up citizenship of his home country (Netherlands) which doesn’t allow dual citizenship. As it happens I would not want him to become a citizen because to do so he would need to pledge allegiance to King Charles. However he has the right to vote and probably exercises that right in ways that are unhelpful to tangata motu such as myself. None of that matters to me. We show manaakitanga to the manuhiri. But the colonialist regime is another story. It is vile, corrupt, dishonest to the core and it must be destroyed.
GF
Gold. Let us take copies of such thoughtful pieces and put them up somewhere where they can have a few days airing before being torn or blown down or covered with a for sale sign for an ev scooter.
Agreed!
thankfully they all fuck off to Australia as soon as they can
The “golden visa” is just another cuck to the “market of inequality” to bid up prices and dispossess the lower classes of any hope whatsoever of being able to join the capital class. It’s a fucking agenda and Luxon is it’s poster boy.
Karel Sroubek ….where he now ?
Forgot to add to the migrant assist category the judiciary giving discounts on sentencing to foreign offenders so they avoid deportation. Just can’t get rid of them, no matter how bad, once they arrive. Domestic abusers, rapists, thieves, exploiters etc – they all get to stay.
I’m sure that the immigrants would soon have things like the pension, holiday pay, sick days, public holidays, free(?) medical and education removed once enough of them vote so your dreams of a better off country will be replaced by mass rebellion. My experience is that the class of employers who refuse to pay a decent wage are the cause of unmotivated workers.
The wages aren’t the main motivation for those that Tim is writing about, it’s an NZ passport and all that entails. They put up with crap wages and long hours of uber driving while waiting for the jackpot.
Sometime ago PM Bolger asserted “we are an Asian nation now” and around that time there was talk that the population could grow up to 5million. We are well passed that now and there are reports of the UN and WEF targets of 10million. Did anyone ever ask the people who live here how many more people should live here?
“When the white settlers have to bring in everyone else to maintain their own position they may have conceded they themselves alone have no natural way of avoiding indigenisation,” In 2000 years time will the english, irish, scottish, french, maori, tahitian, groups that arrived on wakas before the year 2000 all be considered ‘ indigenous’? I wonder.
Another Immigration Scam.
Immigrant from Hong Kong lived here for a few years before moving back to Hong Kong. Before he left he bought a rental property to get an address and each year he has his accountant pay him a small fake but taxable NZ wage so he can qualify for NZ Super. On retirement he will return, kick out the tenants, pick up NZSuper and senior health care.
Wanna have a bun fight at a dinner party? Bring up the topic of immigration. No matter where. NZ is no different. Germany. Australia. The UK. The USA. Even Japan, but for different reasons.
Refugees accepted under the UN Convention aside – well, that imv is an entirely different thing. The world changed in the late 80’s and NZ altered its immigration policy to include ‘non-Europeans’. No longer preference given to fair skinned folk from the North. A points system. The game then changed. Initially the main objective was to attract human capital, those with skills and experience that might contribute to NZ. Why not? A good idea? But in one sense that failed because for the most part ‘non-Europeans’ struggled with English. As an adult you just don’t learn another language – spoken language let alone the often complex literacy associated with the professionals – simply by picking it up. Some put in the hard yards and retrained, reinvented themselves. But many found it tough. Remember the stuff in the paper about doctors driving taxis – not a good example as the medical council, or whoever, makes it very difficult for overseas trained doctors. For good reason. But in another sense, that early policy worked to plan as for the most part the kids of these early non-European immigrants did well at school. The evidence suggested that if parents were highly literate in their first language, educated and skilled – although they may have ended up working in positions well below their training, their kids became fluent in English and educated and skilled. Many stayed. Look in the heath system for evidence.
Around 2000 social cohesion became an issue. Assimilation didn’t pan out as it did with European immigration. Policy makers got worried. Oh… let’s limited those with little English and target the Indian sub-continent, who study English at school, the legacy of British imperialism in India. Then it became less about attracting human capital and more about exploiting human capital. Changes to immigration policy almost made this the default position. That’s we we are now, despite the rhetoric about skills shortages – real as they may be in some areas.
I also recall some of the early categories, those designed to simply attract wealth. Like the Golden Visa under discussion here. But back then well-off Hong Kong Chinese and Taiwanese mostly. That back fired as they simply parked their capital – went back and left their wives and kids here. The astronauts. It took officials a while to get on top of that.
Immigration has always been a moving shit show. Politicians – and no doubt Treasury – making big plans, officials fiddling with the settings, and a world of billions looking to improve their lot.
You’ve got to remember all these rorts are done ‘in the best possible..taste’!
‘Immigration = marginalisation’ for indigenous people. Correct.
Asians have now eclipsed Maori as a percentage of the population.
Why then not a peep from TPM, IWI or Maori leadership?
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