Sabin Mike: Immigration Amendment Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSabin Mike: Immigration Amendment Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 16 April 2013. Volume:689;Page:9401. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MIKE SABIN (National—Northland): I am very pleased to take a call on the Immigration Amendment Bill on mass arrivals. I will steer a little clear of some of the rhetoric from the Greens. There is nothing unusual there. The fact that the Greens do not support this bill is usually a fairly good indication that we are on the right track.We have heard also from the Labour Party about this being somehow ethically and morally wrong. Well I submit to those members that what is ethically and morally wrong is people-smugglers bunging people into boats and sending them off on theirway high jumping those who are working their way through a legitimate process and have genuine refugee status. That is what I think is ethically and morally wrong and to do nothing about that would be an affront to those who actually are looking for genuine refugee status—those 750 per year whom we do look to address under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’s provisions. That is a significant contribution on the global scale.We are a long way away. We are geographically isolated and that is a blessing—that is a blessing. It is also an incentive. There needs to be an adequate deterrent to those who see this as an attractive location. The naivety that I hear from members suggesting that there is no way a boat could arrive here—well go back a few hundred years and ask yourself how Māori ended up getting here. What did they fly a jumbo jet over did they? Take a look at those who have rowed across the Tasman. Take a look at those who have kayaked across the Tasman. To suggest that it cannot be done is just ridiculous. At $50 million for a mass arrival I bet members and people in this House that the first people to be up on their hind legs about doing nothing about it would be the very Labour Party members who are opposing the fact that we are doing something about it now. Would that not be an ironic thing to do?But it is really a case of how the Labour Party operates because this Government actually deals with the challenges. It actually does what the New Zealand public expects us to do. It does not just pick the winners. It actually deals with things as they arise because it has to and that is what it is expected to do. Whereas the team on that side—if I can call them a team; they are fairly dishevelled—chooses to just pick the winners ignore what it wants to push to one side things like the Canterbury earthquakes or whatever else when it suits and then pull that out of the bottom drawer and throw that one up when it does.This is another good example of a party that would criticise us like there was no tomorrow were we to do nothing. I think deep in those members’ hearts they know that this is something that must be done. I am sure they can find it within themselves to support this bill. I commend the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee for its work on it and the Minister of Immigration for the way in which he has carried himself in this bill. I commend it to the House.