Marcus Beveridge: Immigration Lawyer on ACT's new immigration policies

About this episode

Immigration lawyer Marcus Beveridge discusses ACT leader David Seymour's proposed immigration policies and their implications.

ACT leader and Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour will campaign on new immigration policies. His proposed changes include stronger English language requirements, a daily levy, and a specialised enforcement unit targeting people who overstay their visas.  Immigration lawyer Marcus Beveridge called Seymour's policies 'superfluous'.  He told Ryan Bridge, "it's not really worth getting out of bed for this, because most of it's already here, it's super superfluous, it's posturing." LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Ryan Bridge

Guest: Marcus Beveridge

Topics covered

• immigration policies
• English language requirements
• visa overstays
• political campaigning
• lawyer perspectives

Keywords

• immigration
• David Seymour
• Marcus Beveridge
• ACT party
• visa policies
• English requirements
• enforcement unit

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ACT, Newstalk ZB

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