NZ: A young man is going to be deported to his likely death - to save the country $1500 a month.‏

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A live not worth $1500 a month?
by No One Is Illegal
Thursday, 30th January 2014
Immigration & Borders
deportation


An young man is going to be deported to his likely death - to save the
country $1500 a month.
The Dominion Post reported today that Aucklander Sanil Kumar, originally
from Fiji, who depends on daily dialysis and is waiting for a kidney
transplant has been given what the paper euphemistically calls an
‘ultimatum’: either he leaves or he will be deported.

For Kumar it won’t make a difference what the government calls it,
because as the article explains, either way it will be his death
sentence. He will neither be able to receive dialysis nor a transplant
in Fiji.

Despite Kumar having a job (and therefore paying taxes), family members
volunteering as kidney donors and supporters being busy raising money
for the operation, Immigration NZ insists that Kumar is a burden to
society and must go. The paper quotes an Immigration bureaucrat who
calls herself the “acting compliance operations manager” as saying that
the $1500 per month for his dialysis is too much to pay for a live: “all
migrants must have an acceptable standard of health to minimise costs
and demands on New Zealand's health services.” If they don’t minimise
costs enough, they get the boot – no matter what the consequences. Such
is the rationale of NZ’s immigration policy.

Kumar is not the only person to be deported from NZ. Since 2010, around
2500 people have been kicked out, the vast majority of them to Pacific
countries. Almost 200 of them were under the age of 18. There are no
official figures about how many of them were sick, but it is safe to
assume that Kumar is not the first case of this kind.

Kumar’s family is selling raffle tickets to raise funds for his
treatment in the hope that some “compliance manager” at the Ministry of
Business, Innovation and Employment (of which Immigration NZ is a part)
will consider this a sufficient effort to minimise the cost of Kumar’s
existence. The Dompost article ends with listing ways to donate money to
help save his live. We think it is political pressure that needs to be
applied to not only save Kumar’s live but also others. The Immigration
Minister Michael Woodhouse (whose favourite movie is “Die Hard”,
according to his facebook page) can be contacted at
M.Woodhouse@parliament.govt.nz.

No One Is Illegal