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Speaker 1: Okay, once again, not for the first time on the show,

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Speaker 1: and probably not for the last time on the show.

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Speaker 1: Thank goodness for Erica Stanford. Now, normally she's righting wrongs

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Speaker 1: in education, but today it's her other portfolio, which is immigration.

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Speaker 1: She has just introduced a piece of law to Parliament

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Speaker 1: to make it possible for New Zealand to say no

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Speaker 1: to asylum seekers if those asylum seekers have committed a

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Speaker 1: serious offense in this country. Now, it might blow your

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Speaker 1: mind to know that that's not the case currently. Currently,

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Speaker 1: if someone comes to New Zealand and says, oh, I

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Speaker 1: need to be a refugee and then goes on to

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Speaker 1: commit a serious offense before they have been given that

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Speaker 1: refugee status, so no decision has been taken before it happens.

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Speaker 1: The officials who are making that decision are not allowed

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Speaker 1: to take into account the fact that this person has

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Speaker 1: committed a crime in New Zealand. That is bonkers, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It's also not theoretical. It has happened and is happening

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Speaker 1: right now. There are fourteen asylum seekers in New Zealand

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Speaker 1: who are waiting on a decision, who have been convicted

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Speaker 1: of serious offenses murder, serious sexual offenses, serious drug offenses

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Speaker 1: and arson. Those crimes will now be considered and I

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Speaker 1: hope to God in each of those cases it's a big,

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Speaker 1: fat no. We don't need murderers in this country now.

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Speaker 1: Apparently we are a soft touch globally. This is not

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Speaker 1: unusual around the world to take into account crimes they're

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Speaker 1: committed in country before giving the refugee status. The EU

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Speaker 1: has rules that allow refugee status to be stripped for crimes.

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Speaker 1: Australia goes even further than that. It's past the law

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Speaker 1: to revoke refugee status if they need to. These people

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Speaker 1: have already been declared refugees and they take the status

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Speaker 1: off them. Prepare yourself, of course for the usual handwringing

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Speaker 1: from usual suspects over this. But this is yet another

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Speaker 1: case of, as I say, Eric, a stand for doing

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Speaker 1: something is just common sense, because yes, we absolutely have

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Speaker 1: a duty to protect people from their fellow countrymen if

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Speaker 1: they might come to harm by going back to that country,

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Speaker 1: but our first duty is to protect our own people.

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