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Ryan Bridge: Kiwis actually love Butter Chicken, Shane · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Take away migrants from our economy, and the thing pretty
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  Speaker 1: much falls apart. This is not Europe, where they are
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  Speaker 1: overrun with boats and expensive hotel bills to house the passengers.
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  Speaker 1: This is not the US, where illegal immigration and migrants
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  Speaker 1: poured across a porous border until Trump came along. This
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  Speaker 1: is New Zealand, separated from the rest of the world
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  Speaker 1: by quite a large ocean called the Pacific and a
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  Speaker 1: rather fussy policy, thank you very much when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to who comes here and why. If you look at
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  Speaker 1: the numbers, they tell you we're doing a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: job of migration. Kerewe Migrants are less likely to claim
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  Speaker 1: a benefit, more likely to be employed, children, have better
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  Speaker 1: education outcomes than native born New Zealanders. The idea that
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  Speaker 1: they steal jobs from US doesn't stack up either, because
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  Speaker 1: an economy doesn't have a cap on the number of
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  Speaker 1: jobs available. Of course, job growth happens when demand increases,
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  Speaker 1: and migration equals increased demand. Plus, they're more likely to
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  Speaker 1: take initiative and start businesses, which you guessed it, actually
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  Speaker 1: employ people. Migrants tend to be younger, so they contribute
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  Speaker 1: more to taxes than the native born Kiwis. They also
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  Speaker 1: do jobs that many of us think we're above. Just
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  Speaker 1: look at those on the dole in the regions. Housing
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  Speaker 1: and hospitals can be a problem, I concede, But that's
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  Speaker 1: a job that can be fixed with better planning, laws,
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  Speaker 1: fewer regulations and investment in health. So back to Marta
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  Speaker 1: Shane and his butter chicken tsunami. Actually, the India FDA,
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  Speaker 1: as far as we can tell, would allow just five
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  Speaker 1: thousand three year visas at any one time. That is
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  Speaker 1: just six percent of accredited employee work visas issued in
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  Speaker 1: a year. By the way, ninety percent of those will
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  Speaker 1: be for jobs that we've got shortages and engineers, it professionals, teachers.
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  Speaker 1: This looks a bit like a beat up from Uncle Shane,
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  Speaker 1: I have to say. And as for the colorful language,
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  Speaker 1: actually most Kiwis don't mind a bit of but a chicken.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. For more from early edition with
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge. Listen live to News Talks it be from
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