New Zealand is a western democracy, of course. But it is squarely in the far-left end of that column, to be sure. But even this left-wing country is coming to the realization that untrammeled immigration is suicide.
The country has just put in place new rules that future applicants for visas will have to prove that they can speak English.
It might seem like a small thing, but is shows that even these liberals understand that filling your country with people that don’t speak your language and don’t care about your country is a bad, bad idea. Because it means the end of the very society.
According to Yahoo Finance:
On Sunday, New Zealand’s government reported that 173,000 non-citizens migrated to the country last year, almost a record. The figure is also more than twice what forecasters predicted in May 2023, when officials projected that just 82,500 migrants would move to the country. The country has an overall population of 5.1 million.
“Getting our immigration settings right is critical to this Government’s plan to rebuild the economy,” said Erica Stanford, the minister of immigration and minister of education, in Sunday’s statement.
New Zealand will now impose an English-language requirement on those applying for worker visas, including for low-skilled jobs. The government is also reducing the length of stay to three years, down from five.
The government argued the new language requirement will ensure that incoming migrants better understand their rights, and raise concerns to the authorities. In February, New Zealand’s Public Service Commission, which oversees the country’s public sector organizations, alleged that loose visa rules exposed migrants to exploitation, or allowed them to effectively buy jobs.
All sensible points.
But it does go against the far-left’s knee-jerk proclamations about how virtuous immigrants are — an automatic assumption that usually precludes and caveats of sensible restrictions at all.
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