Guest essay by Eric Worrall
New Zealand is considering adding “climate change” to its list of accepted reasons for claiming refugee status. But in my opinion this initiative is not what it seems.
New Zealand considers creating climate change refugee visas
Minister says experimental humanitarian visa category could be introduced for people displaced by rising seas
New Zealand’s new government is considering creating a visa category to help relocate Pacific peoples displaced by climate change.
The new category would make official the Green party’s pre-election policy which promised 100 visas for those affected by climate change.
As part of the new Labour-led coalition government, the Green party leader James Shaw was given the role of climate change minister.
He told Radio New Zealand on Tuesday that “an experimental humanitarian visa category” could be implemented for people from the Pacific who are displaced by rising seas resulting from climate change.
“It is a piece of work that we intend to do in partnership with the Pacific islands,” Shaw said.
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Why do I suggest this offer is a sham? The reason is New Zealand ALREADY offers citizenship to residents of alleged climate hotspot Kiribati – but hardly anyone has accepted the offer. In the words of Kiribati President Anote Tong;
… There are potentially hundreds of millions of people in low-lying areas that could be affected by sea level rises. He wonders if wealthy countries fear that cases like Mr Teitiota’s could turn climate migration from a trickle to a raging torrent.
But there hasn’t been a dramatic exodus just yet. The New Zealand immigration department sets aside 75 places a year in a lottery for migrants from Kiribati, and at the moment it can’t fill them.
President Anote Tong suggests that is because things aren’t desperate enough yet.
“It’s not a critical issue yet. I think if there are people who migrate now, I hope they would do it out of choice. But as to the question, is it so critical that people would be regarded as refugees? My answer would be no, not at this point in time.”
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34674374
This New Zealand initiative might be a response to the high profile 2015 deportation of Kiribati citizen Ioane Teitiota, who attempted to claim asylum in New Zealand as a climate refugee. The decision to deport Mr. Teitiota was strongly criticised by left wing and green politicians.
Sad day as Kiribati deportee gets marching orders
Wednesday, 23 September 2015, 8:39 am
Press Release: New Zealand Labour Party
Phil TWYFORD
MP for Te Atatū
22 September 2015
MEDIA STATEMENT
Sad day as Kiribati deportee gets marching orders
News that Ioane Teitiota will be deported to Kiribati will be a blow to him and his family and to the local Kiribati community, Te Atatu MP Phil Twyford says.
“As the local MP, I had asked Associate Immigration Minister Craig Foss to allow the family to stay in New Zealand on humanitarian grounds.
“It now appears Mr Teitiota is due to be deported tomorrow.
“This is very sad for the family and the Kiribati community. We gave it our best shot. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough.
“While the courts rejected Mr Teitiota’s bid to be classed a refugee, this case has highlighted the need for the Government to do more to tackle the threat of rising sea levels to low lying Pacific nations like Kiribati and Tuvalu,” Phil Twyford says.
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Read more: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1509/S00384/sad-day-as-kiribati-deportee-gets-marching-orders.htm
An investigation by New Zealand journalists suggests a very different reason why Mr. Teitiota might have wanted to leave his homeland. Mr. Teitiota’s former employer accuses the failed Kiribati climate refugee of being a lazy, violent sexual predator.
‘A dark underbelly’ – sex allegations made against Kiribati ‘climate change’ refugee
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However revelations have been made against Mr Teitiota by a former employer saying he sexually assaulted a female co-worker and violently assaulted other colleagues before being fired from a west Auckland market garden.
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Mr Argent says he made a “throw away” line about being an environmental refugee and “they ran with it”.
He says in October last year a female worker complained about Mr Teitioata, and a month later another female worker alleged he bailed her up in a shed, came onto her and sexually assaulted her.
He was fired and police were informed, but the case did not proceed due to lack of evidence.
Mr Teitiota was warned about his actions.
Other workers then came forward with more claims of violence against Mr Teitiota.
“They filed affadavits stating one of them was threatened to have his throat cut,” Mr Argent says.
“The other had been hit by a spade and another said he had been falsifying his time sheets.”
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As far as I know Mr. Teitioata has not been convicted of any of these alleged crimes. But if these accusations are a true reflection of Mr. Teitioata’s character, there is no mystery why he didn’t want to return to his Kiribati homeland, a place where the relatives of victims tend to take a very traditional view of how to respond to unprovoked assaults against their loved ones. My guess is Mr Teitioata’s departure and reluctant return to Kiribati had nothing to do with anthropogenic climate change.
It sounds more like a make-work program for Greens to get paid for administration.
Those who can’t do teach, those who can’t teach go into politics!!
Why is NZ so desperate to get “Climate” refugees; even when there is little interest among their target market?
Could it be with a couple of hundred or so they have the makings of a global PR media-release like “Islanders flee rising sea levels in NZ”?
No it’s perhaps a longer play they will get the islands for free because they have all the residents. I suggested Europe could do the same once you have the population of a small African country you should be able to go and claim the land. It is a peaceful way to expand a country you just need to make sure it doesn’t happen like China has done with Tibet :-).
So – as long as Brexit does not disturb the past trend [a significant maybe, I know – but this mention proves I am not a climate ‘scientist’] – in about a generation, the UK should be able to claim France [given the immigration . . . .].
Nice the think that Bordeaux and Burgundy will be British wines . . . . . .
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That’s just plain old ludicrous.
Aha! So there is a way for a foreigner to purchase real estate in New Zealand.
The Greens in NZ have to act as if they believe their propaganda. Just how much they do believe is a matter of dispute.
Amongst my PhD-equipped colleagues, including an American, an Australian, an Englishman, a couple of Austrians, another European, and several Chinese, there are two climate realists, both of us born here. (And one open-minded Australian.) Most of them think I am crazy. I say “have you *read* any of the papers you say prove it? No? Well, I have. So what makes my opinion worse than yours?” The answer of course is “who do you think you are setting yourself against THE CONSENSUS?” I would be astonished if any of the Greens *didn’t* believe their propaganda whole-heartedly. They want it to be true, they need it to be true, so wouldn’t they believe it? (Evidence? Nah.)
We should ship all the green zealots, dodgy troughing politicians and their subsidy farmers there for a Start. No right of return. Ideal location. Economy won’t last long though. Tough when reality hits the moronic electorate. How can former Brit people be SO stupid?
Doesn’t say much for NZ education systems or the ability of people to independnently validate what they are told. They put seriously bat shit crazy people in charge. At least we only make ours Baronesses to limit damage to our country..Baroness Worthington only managed to waste £5Billion pa of our money and counting on the phoney in energy fact promises of renewables, before she was elevated to the peerage and the haemorrhaging wound in our economy tht was the DECC wound up – before we bled to death.
Suddenly, New Zealand doesn’t seem so boring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb42Jb8jxfY
So NZ is bigoted against “refugees” from the Atlantic Ocean. Got it
Down with Middle Earth!
Are all English speaking nations crazy?
Yes and the French ones too. But the French are sneaky at getting less crazy when no one is looking.
All Western are. Disease called cultural Marxism.
We woke up too late because initially they drove things that sounded good, like minority power, overtaxing everybody, freedom from police, world peace by submission. It just later became evident this meant inequality, inefficiency, criminality, takeover by immigrants etc.
They say white men don’t need equality, environment does not need efficiency, criminals are humans too, and I don’t have a right to independence. If you disagree with cultural Marxists, they’ll get to your throat. They want to take away your money, freedom, and values.
But what to fight CM with? They’re everywhere and we are divided and weak. They control Western MSM and governments to a large extent. They have most parties in most Western countries. They have the EU and the UN. They have California, Canada and Australia.
Spots of resistance are in danger of being or becoming sockpuppets of CM unfriendly Russia. Yikes. Russia is no friend to Russian Greenpeace, but is no good ally either, on the contrary will help the demise of the West.
The Ultimate Virtue Signaling!
When the lights go out we will see change. Bit like the TRUMP, thing. . and possibly BREXIT. . What is happening is a modern version of the French revolution. The phesants are revolting, yes they are, Hi.
Michael Elliott.
And as if by magic they will appear….. It is called the least line of resistance to get whatever you want. The whole refugee system is bankrupt and they just make it more so.