You know there’s a terrible recession coming, Government starts cracking down on immigrants

Jesus wept, the economy must be in such deep trouble if the Government are suddenly rolling out a draconian immigration crackdown…

Government announces crackdown on immigration breaches with new deportation rules, as overstayer numbers revealed

…You know there’s a terrible recession coming, because right wing Government’s always  start cracking down on immigrants.

There are 4 magical pillars of the NZ economic ‘success’

1 – Stealing Indigenous land and never paying back the full value.

2 – Selling basic milk powder to China

3 – Selling each other houses and pretending that makes us rich.

4 – Addiction to a low wage economy.

The migration exploitation rules are garbage because NZ loves exploiting migrant labour!

We are addicted to it.

We say locals are too lazy for these jobs when really what we say is locals won’t allow themselves to be exploited as easily as migrant workers.

There is of course a solution here.

Universals Union membership for every migrant worker crossing the border.

That way domestic workers know they are not competing against exploited labour.

That way migrant labour can’t be exploited without the Union stepping in.

That way the migrant worker and domestic worker are all protected by the solidarity of the Union.

We don’t want a solution to exploited labour, that’s why Universal Union Membership for migrant workers is ignored and non-solutions like this are promoted.

We need economic resilience, we need community resilience, we need radical reform to strengthen sustainability.

We need more Left Universalism.

We need to lift the tax yoke off working people, beneficiaries and the middle classes and we need to put it on the Banks, the Corporations, the Billionaires and the mega wealthy.

We need more Democratic Infrastructure, not less!

Why do we need these things?

Because the climate is shutting down and we face a bleak future where Billions will suffer and die thanks to catastrophic climate change.

This change will be forced upon us whether we like it or not.

This demands more connections, more bonds that bind us together to emotionally, socially,  economically and politically survive what is coming.

Māori communalism is going to teach us a lot.

Cracking down on migrant workers we’ve used and then thrown away is ugly.

Ricardo is right, we should be offering these 20 000 overstayers amnesty, not wasting money chasing them down and the expense of deporting them!

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