Starting in September, migrants in New Zealand will be able to sponsor their parents to stay here for up to five years. The visa can be renewed once, meaning parents could remain in the country for a full decade on what is essentially a long-term visitor visa. This is a backdoor residency scheme, and a very generous one at that. As usual, it is being sold to us under the guise of economic growth and family reunification, two terms that now seem to mean more people, more strain, and more cultural dilution.
Christopher Luxon and Immigration Minister Erica Stanford have proudly announced this as a win for making New Zealand more competitive for skilled migrants. But the reality is we are not just attracting workers. We are signing ourselves up to support their extended families as well. Support with what, exactly? Infrastructure that is already stretched to breaking point? A healthcare system on life support? Skyrocketing rents? Overburdened roads and overcrowded schools?
Luxon says this will deliver economic and social benefits, but to whom? What about the working New Zealander who cannot get a GP appointment for three weeks? What about the taxpayer who is footing the bill for a bloated system that now has to cater to foreign nationals who have contributed nothing to this country?
Let’s be clear. This is about importing more people, not taking care of the ones already here. We have thousands of Kiwis living in motels, sleeping in cars, or waiting endlessly for surgery. How does this Government justify prioritising migrants’ parents, many of whom will never work or pay taxes here, over actual citizens in need?
Act’s Dr Parmjeet Parmar applauds the visa, noting it includes a requirement for private health insurance. But let’s be real. Private insurance doesn’t cover everything, and sooner or later, the public health system will be the fallback. Even if that doesn’t happen directly, it will happen indirectly through higher demand, longer queues, and increased costs that affect all of us.
Meanwhile, the Greens are crying foul, not because they oppose the visa, but because it isn’t open to everyone. According to them, the problem isn’t too many migrants. It is that not enough can bring their parents. They want us to throw open the gates and treat residency like a family reunion pass. Their immigration spokesman Ricardo Menéndez March says wealth should not be a prerequisite for bringing parents here. So who should pay, Ricardo? Kiwis who are already struggling?
Let’s call this what it is. Social engineering. A relentless campaign to reshape New Zealand demographically and culturally under the illusion of progress. With each new visa category, we inch closer to becoming the New Delhi of the South Pacific. Crowded, polluted, expensive, and fractured.
This is not about race. It is about numbers, sustainability, and national identity. We are importing the problems of other countries faster than we can build the infrastructure to handle them. The hospitals aren’t coping. The roads are clogged. The schools are full. And instead of looking after our own people, our elderly, our homeless, our struggling young families, we are making it easier for more foreign nationals to settle long-term.
Enough is enough.
We need a pause, not an expansion, of immigration. It is time to get serious about population sustainability, prioritising New Zealanders first, and ending this never-ending influx. The country is full, not just in terms of space, but in terms of capacity. We cannot keep solving our problems by importing people, and we certainly should not be importing problems along with them.
New Zealand should not be for sale or for rent to every family with the right passport and a sponsor. If you want to build a life here, great. But the taxpayer should not be subsidising your extended family reunion. We owe our loyalty to those born and raised here, and the ones who have genuinely made this country home, not to those just arriving with suitcases and entitlement.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
Christopher Luxon and Immigration Minister Erica Stanford have proudly announced this as a win for making New Zealand more competitive for skilled migrants. But the reality is we are not just attracting workers. We are signing ourselves up to support their extended families as well. Support with what, exactly? Infrastructure that is already stretched to breaking point? A healthcare system on life support? Skyrocketing rents? Overburdened roads and overcrowded schools?
Luxon says this will deliver economic and social benefits, but to whom? What about the working New Zealander who cannot get a GP appointment for three weeks? What about the taxpayer who is footing the bill for a bloated system that now has to cater to foreign nationals who have contributed nothing to this country?
Let’s be clear. This is about importing more people, not taking care of the ones already here. We have thousands of Kiwis living in motels, sleeping in cars, or waiting endlessly for surgery. How does this Government justify prioritising migrants’ parents, many of whom will never work or pay taxes here, over actual citizens in need?
Act’s Dr Parmjeet Parmar applauds the visa, noting it includes a requirement for private health insurance. But let’s be real. Private insurance doesn’t cover everything, and sooner or later, the public health system will be the fallback. Even if that doesn’t happen directly, it will happen indirectly through higher demand, longer queues, and increased costs that affect all of us.
Meanwhile, the Greens are crying foul, not because they oppose the visa, but because it isn’t open to everyone. According to them, the problem isn’t too many migrants. It is that not enough can bring their parents. They want us to throw open the gates and treat residency like a family reunion pass. Their immigration spokesman Ricardo Menéndez March says wealth should not be a prerequisite for bringing parents here. So who should pay, Ricardo? Kiwis who are already struggling?
Let’s call this what it is. Social engineering. A relentless campaign to reshape New Zealand demographically and culturally under the illusion of progress. With each new visa category, we inch closer to becoming the New Delhi of the South Pacific. Crowded, polluted, expensive, and fractured.
This is not about race. It is about numbers, sustainability, and national identity. We are importing the problems of other countries faster than we can build the infrastructure to handle them. The hospitals aren’t coping. The roads are clogged. The schools are full. And instead of looking after our own people, our elderly, our homeless, our struggling young families, we are making it easier for more foreign nationals to settle long-term.
Enough is enough.
We need a pause, not an expansion, of immigration. It is time to get serious about population sustainability, prioritising New Zealanders first, and ending this never-ending influx. The country is full, not just in terms of space, but in terms of capacity. We cannot keep solving our problems by importing people, and we certainly should not be importing problems along with them.
New Zealand should not be for sale or for rent to every family with the right passport and a sponsor. If you want to build a life here, great. But the taxpayer should not be subsidising your extended family reunion. We owe our loyalty to those born and raised here, and the ones who have genuinely made this country home, not to those just arriving with suitcases and entitlement.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
10 comments:
I was thinking the same thing. This is not going to attract skilled migrants but more beneficiaries who contribute nothing to this country. If these parents had skills we need they would qualify for immigration on their own.
But let's look at the elephant in the room here. Why do we need to import unskilled workers? Because Kiwis are too lazy to do that work themselves and are encouraged by successive governments to just sit on their fat backsides on a benefit at taxpayer's expense.
the pos's that are the govt and actuall all pollies need to get real. they govern for themselves are totally selfish and unaccountable to citizens. I will applaud when one of them gets what is coming to them. and let that be a lesson to all of them.
Doesn't work well for Maori. At the moment that activist class is outbreeding the right voting class. Most immigrants I do business with vote strong right. They find Maori to be lazy.
“It’s time to ask who exactly this country is being run for”, and exactly who is running it?
It looks like the “collective west” via its “captured governments” is deliberating pushing/goading its citizens to civil unrest by introducing extreme policies/directives that goes against their underlying culture and the will of their people.
Not we the people’s government, not we the people’s policies.
Yes Matua, enough is enough.
Mumbai? Hmmm. Has anyone noticed how much work is being done in this country by Indian workers. I sure have. The scaffolding team and a good roofing worker when my roof was replaced last year, the guys running the workshop where my car gets serviced, the skilled plumbers in Auckland a friend now relies on for his commercial buildings - yes, all Indians, working hard in this country, paying taxes too, while, some 11-12% of our population languish on benefits and the now large corporations of the “Maori economy” pay no tax. Indians often live as extended families. Grandparents play a big role in childcare and I might add, having lived for 7yrs in a street where some 20% of homes housed Indian families, the children were extremely nice - well behaved, polite, friendly, older kids looking after younger ones. It was a lovely street until a big Transitional Housing Development moved in around the corner. Think twice before complaining about this new govt plan.
More people, more stress on our eco systems (and everything else) so that we can never achieve as a country our self proclaimed feel good aims.
Agree with Matua, some really good points.
Think twice before complaining about this new govt plan?
This is the “solution” stage to our successive government(s) by design problem creation/reaction stage. If our governments were working in the best interests of ALL New Zealanders and not in the interests of a foreign corporate entity, then it would be Kiwi’s doing all work for other Kiwis.
Perhaps this is a good time to ask if voting should be restricted to citizens only.
If kiwis residing in India or China don't get to vote and shape policy there, why is the opposite acceptable?
Anon 12:03 - Yours is a good point. It would be great if we could employ NZers working for NZers. Conversations I’ve had with local employers say they would employ reliable Kiwis in a heartbeat if only they could find them. Matua has opened a good debate here and I thank him for that - and all the commenters too. To move NZ forward it’s probably going to take a whole lot of us having honest conversations. I know I don’t have all the answers - I may well be lucky to have any of the answers!
But matua, you raise an interesting dilemma. We would love to take care of the 5 mill people here, but don't have enough money to do so.
There are over 50000 people aged between 18-24 on the dole. The majority of these can and should be contributing, but choose not to and when aided by the likes of labour, greens etc there's no incentive to contribute. So we need these immigrants to do the work that these parasites on the dole refuse to do, yet put their grubby hands out each week demanding their booze money. The left defend these parasites ( parasites and the left have a lot in common) suggesting it's their RIGHT not to work.....so it must be my RIGHT to refuse to pay the parasites then?
I guess it comes down to the far left needing to move back towards the center a little more as they have moved so far off the spectrum they make unstable mental patients look decidedly normal.
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