{"id":7603,"date":"2023-09-04T05:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T17:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7603"},"modified":"2023-09-04T05:32:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T17:32:02","slug":"victim-numbers-in-the-thousands-community-leaders-meet-immigration-minister-as-188-accredited-employers-investigated-for-exploitation-and-visa-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7603","title":{"rendered":"Victim numbers \u2018in the thousands\u2019: Community leaders meet Immigration Minister as 188 accredited employers investigated for exploitation and visa breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">New figures show 188 employers are now being investigated for migrant exploitation and breaching visa rules in New Zealand, with one MP estimating thousands of workers could be affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Community leaders from Nepal and India met with Immigration Minister Andrew Little over the weekend to discuss a scheme in which migrant workers paid large amounts to intermediaries for visas and jobs that are non-existent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Workers from Colombia, Brazil, Chile, the Philippines and Bangladesh have also been caught up in the alleged exploitation scam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Immigration NZ (INZ) says it does not know how widespread the problem is, but National\u2019s immigration spokeswoman Erica Stanford, who has been working closely with workers and their advocates, estimates the victim numbers to be \u201cin the thousands\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New figures show 188 employers are now being investigated for migrant exploitation and breaching visa rules in New Zealand, with one MP estimating thousands of workers could be affected. Community leaders from Nepal and India met with Immigration Minister Andrew Little over the weekend to discuss a scheme in which migrant workers paid large amounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7605,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions\/7605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}