It gives me no joy, really, to say “I told you so”, but…well, I told you so.
Eight months after arriving in New Zealand, acclaimed author Behrouz Boochani has been granted refugee status.
As I said at the time, Behrouz Boochani has been a festering parasite greedily sucking the blood of Australian taxpayers for years. Now, he’s New Zealand’s problem. I also warned that having unwisely bared your bums to the leech, you’d never prise him loose.
Gaining refugee status means he can stay in New Zealand indefinitely and can apply for a resident’s visa.
It’s not like Refujesus had nowhere else to go.
When he left Papua New Guinea – where he was detained for six years after attempting to enter Australia – ABC reported he had been accepted for resettlement in the United States.
He was brought to New Zealand for a writers’ festival in Christchurch in November, on a one-month visa supported by Amnesty International NZ, and has lived in the city while seeking asylum.
Which is a funny way of describing someone who does a bunk and scuttles into hiding, really. It might also be germane to mention that he attempted to enter Australia illegally.
It also raises questions of just whose strings were pulled. After all, the vast bulk of asylum claims last year were rejected. But then, none of them were steaming up the undies of the busybody cat ladies of the luvvie left.
It’s who you know, though, ain’t it, Boozy?
Boochani said[…]“I don’t want to be friends with politicians.”
National’s immigration spokesperson Stuart Smith, has questioned the legitimacy of the process over Boochani’s application for asylum and suggested he received favourable treatment from Immigration New Zealand because he had supporters in the Government.
Smith said the minister of immigration or Immigration New Zealand had not given any direction to allow Boochani to enter New Zealand, and he did not meet the criteria for a refugee as it was not true he had nowhere else to go.
“He [Boochani] publicly stated he had been accepted to settle in the US, or he could go back to live in Papua New Guinea.”
Of course, Boozy and his pals are quick with the evasions and half-truths. Remember when he said he wasn’t going to seek asylum, “because I’m already accepted by America”?
UC Ngai Tahu Research Centre associate professor Te Maire Tau said[…]UC has a history of supporting refugees going back as far as the 1930s, when Karl Popper the philosopher arrived as a Jewish refugee from Austria.
That’s stretching the truth to breaking point. Popper legally emigrated to New Zealand to take up an academic position, which, given his status and publication record as a scholar, UC – “a small, stuffy college”, in the words of biographer Alan Ryan – was lucky to get. (Speaking of Popper, he certainly wouldn’t have approved of the Marxist extremists Boozy keeps company with.)
Boozy also claims that it’s not safe for him to return to New Guinea. I certainly hope his reason has nothing to do with this.
But this has bigger ramifications for New Zealand than just another leftist darling getting his nose in the trough.
As the Australian has previously reported, “Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has vowed that Boochani will never be allowed to enter Australia, even if New Zealand ends up granting him asylum. That would create an unusual situation, because typically New Zealanders and Australians are free to live and work in both countries under a mutual agreement.”
The veiled threat to New Zealand here is clear: say good-bye to open access to Australia. Whenever our borders finally open again, no more visa-free work and travel, not to mention pensions and entitlements, for the half-million plus Kiwis.
Don’t thank us: thank the fangirls in New Zealand Labour and the Greens.
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