Mary Holm speaks out on attitudes to Immigrants.
I don’t usually have much time for Mary Holm, mostly because she hates property investing and thinks you must have a screw loose if you don’t sell a kidney in order to set up a Kiwisaver account. But I’ve just read an interesting article from her about why it may not be such a smart idea for New Zealand to ban immigrants on the basis that it could cost Kiwis their jobs.
There has recently been some agro in the papers over migrants keeping jobs when Kiwis are being made redundant – and in the cases that I’ve heard of there does seem to be some legitimate complaints (work visas are very specific, and companies cant just decide to alter the work a migrant is doing).
Mary’s main point is that by bringing Migrants into New Zealand you create demand for extra jobs because those migrants now have money to spend, and need services to be provided. She also makes the point that having got here, many migrants will go onto to create new businesses and thus create more employment opportunities.
I think it goes to show if nothing else that immigration issues are not always as straightforward as they may appear. I’m also figuring that this applies equally to immigration into the UK.
The article can be read here.
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