Older immigrants

Your correspondent Sheila Sivyer may well be funding her own retirement in New Zealand, but I can guarantee a considerable number of elderly immigrants admitted under the family reunification policy do not.

That’s not to mention the increasing burden on the health system and the cost of providing free transport to non-driving older immigrants. Meanwhile, we have a growing number of younger New Zealanders locked out of the housing market or exiled from their own parents because they can’t afford to live in Auckland, and as for NZ Super, forget it.

Family reunification may be a wonderful thing for our immigrants, but as far as the hardworking New Zealand taxpayer is concerned, this is but another example of the interests of other nationalities being put first.

C. E. J. Bellamy, Glendowie.