A podcast episode featuring Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour discussing his immigration policies, including visa fees, language tests, and infrastructure funding, framed around fairness, rural sustainability, and the evolving role of migration in New Zealand.
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Well, of course we're not, and they both know that because when I became the minister, the previous government had immigration out of control. They had, what, 135,000 net migration was our figure when I became the minister and 70% of those workers were low skilled. because a previous government flew through the floodgates open, closed their eyes and didn't do any proper verification. And once there's a chink in your armour and your borders are compromised, anyone can get in. I have completely turned that around in two years. We now have 70% of our workers coming in who are highly skilled workers and only 30% who are lower skilled. And we still need, as you know, those lower skilled workers, for example, the workers in our dairy farms, the dairy farm workers to come in. So we'll always need a proportion of those, but it is work tested. There has to be a genuine job and you have to properly check that no New Zealander was able to do the work. And then after three years, and they've been pretty strict on this, you have to leave. Unless you've upskilled yourself into a higher role, you must leave to create room for a Kiwi. So all of these problems have been solved and they are stirring up this. Sentence, which to be fair is a hangover from what Labour did, but it's all been solved under this government.
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