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Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has said that immigrants in New Zealand without a job should think about going home.
Peters said Newstalk ZB that foreigners had been told “look, you have to go home, everyone has changed”.
“All I would say to people is, do you really think it is fair, when you have no right to be in the country beyond the time your visa says, for you to say: ‘I have made a decision this is my home now ?
Thousands of foreigners trapped without work in New Zealand have been asked to access the benefits system here.
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Winston Peters said that foreign citizens should not expect New Zealand’s support.
“What we did was go to all the embassies in this country to say ‘these are its citizens’ that we have tried to put all the public services and bring New Zealanders home, they have to do the same thing,” Peters said.
He said he did not want to see the government resort to deporting people.
Peters also responded to fears that New Zealand exporters would be punished for deteriorating relations with China after New Zealand supported a measure to allow Taiwan, whose independence is not recognized by China, to join the World Organization. of Health as an observer.
“We express our strong dissatisfaction with the statements and resolutely oppose it, and we have already made severe representations with New Zealand,” a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry told reporters in Beijing.
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People wear face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus while visiting a night market in Taipei, Taiwan.
Meat exports from four Australian slaughterhouses were unable to enter China, possibly in retaliation for Australia’s backing for Taiwan.
He said he took his word for China when he said he wanted to be part of the international trading establishment, which would mean that he could not simply block exports on a whim.
“We need to hear from all the communities in the world that are making a successful effort to fight Covid-19,” he said.
