Woodhouse Buying Time in Akbari Case Not Good Enough
Monday, 24 April 2017, 8:49 pm Press Release: ACT New Zealand
David Seymour welcomes Michael Woodhouse’s suspending
Immigration New Zealand’s discretion to protect those with
residence visas who commit criminal offences from
deportation.
New Zealanders might wonder: What discretion
civil servants should have to let someone with a violent or
sexual offence remain in New Zealand at all?
Other
questions might include:
Will there be an investigation
into each of the other decisions of this type the department
has made since 2011? Will he explain the extraordinary
circumstances that led to Sultan Ali Abdul Ali
Akbari Will he change the law so that there is no
discretion for those on residence visas who commit a violent
or sexual offence that is a strike offence under the Three
Strikes Law? It is welcome that the Minister is taking
some action, but he should not believe that simply buying
two weeks is enough. There must be explanation of
consequences.
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