Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
Dawn Chorus for Monday, January 8
TL;DR: Two days after Christmas, Immigration NZ ordered a ‘temporary’ dairy farm worker who has built a family in Tokoroa over 10 years on rolling visas to go home because of a risk he might need kidney treatment.
The latest case reported by Corazon Miller at 1News shows how unsustainable and unfair our current migration system has become, given it relies on a delusion that hundreds of thousands of ‘temporary’ workers will go home once a temporary labour shortage is filled, even though many are repeatedly rolled on temporary visas in a no-mans-land of being rebuffed for residency while paying…
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