The immigration 'reset' looks more pointless every day

The immigration 'reset' looks more pointless every day
The immigration reset has turned out quite differently to what Stuart Nash pitched it as back in 2021. (Image: NZME)
Dileepa Fonseka
By the time you hear about migrant exploitation in the media it is always too late.  Migrants only turn to the media and migrant advocates when they are in the direst of straits and out of all other options.  By all indications, it is now too late. Migrant Workers Association president Anu Kaloti can barely contain her frustration about the current wave of exploitation when I call her up about it: “Sorry, I’m really angry about this at the moment. They should have known. It was all there, all of us knew this was where it w...

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