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Speaker 1: So I'm going to suggest that Erica Stanford is on

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Speaker 1: the right track with wanting to make it easier to

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Speaker 1: deport criminals, but maybe she doesn't go far enough. So

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Speaker 1: at the moment, the rules are that we cannot deport

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Speaker 1: criminals if they've been here on a residences visa, so

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Speaker 1: they've been residents for more than ten years. Example of

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Speaker 1: this is the Muma Hooch brothers. These guys are not Kiwi's,

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Speaker 1: you know, the ones I'm talking about done in christ Church.

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Speaker 1: They're not Kiwis, they're Assi's. They don't have citizenship here,

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Speaker 1: they don't have Kiwi passports. But even though they are

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Speaker 1: two of the country's worst sexual offenders, we cannot deport

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Speaker 1: them back to Australia because they've been here in New

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Speaker 1: Zealand as residents for longer than ten years. Now, Erica

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Speaker 1: Stanford is proposing to change the rules so that that

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Speaker 1: gets moved out to twenty years for anyone who's committed

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Speaker 1: a serious crime like murder, rape or manslaughter. Now, I

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Speaker 1: would say scrap the time limit all together. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter how long you've been here twenty years, twenty five years,

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Speaker 1: thirty years, fifty years. If you decide that you want

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Speaker 1: to rape or kill someone, you go home. You lose

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Speaker 1: the privilege of being here. Maybe we need to look

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Speaker 1: at outside of rape and murder and manslaughter as well.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps we have lower time limits for other crimes, but

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Speaker 1: time limits all but further than ten years, if you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. We take a line on those crimes,

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Speaker 1: push it out a little bit further, because the key

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Speaker 1: here is that it is a privilege. It's a privilege

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Speaker 1: to be in New Zealand and not a right. And

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Speaker 1: I suppose what I'm suggesting is that we take a

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Speaker 1: leaf out of Australia's book and get rid of other

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Speaker 1: countries criminals. Much as I don't always love what Australia

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Speaker 1: is doing, what I love a lot less is looking

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Speaker 1: after other countries criminals. So I reckon no time limit

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