The immigration minister discusses a significant drop in net migration from 135,000 to 24,000, attributing it to improved risk management, a shift toward high-skilled migrants, and stricter enforcement of visa conditions, while defending the government's approach as necessary and
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That is fair. And Immigration New Zealand got absolutely hauled over the coals and so should have the previous minister under Labour when we opened the borders from COVID and we just let in. Anyone, we literally closed our eyes and said, you know, welcome to New Zealand, we're not going to check your documents or do a proper risk management. That was a disaster. That's how we ended up with 70% low skilled migrants couldn't speak English, you know, brought all of their family and were then essentially exploited. What we've built over the last two years is proper risk management, proper verification. So and we've brought in things like English language requirements. You're not allowed to bring your family. I mean, if you're low skilled, you have to have the skill required to do the job, which we didn't have before. So with all that tightening up, we're just not getting the applicants who are the more dodgy
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