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Risk Management In Immigration

4 items · 4 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 4 May 2026

The CTU submits a balanced critique of the Immigration (Enhanced Risk Management) Bill, opposing increased deportation liability and reduced appeal rights while supporting measures to address migrant exploitation.

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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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