The number of Indian men and youths who have abandoned their pilgrimage to
the Pope's World Youth Day and disappeared in Auckland today climbed to 39.
When the last plane carrying the pilgrims to Sydney departed Auckland
International Airport tonight, their numbers had dwindled from 220 to 181.
The missing pilgrims appear to have been involved in an immigration scam.
Auckland Justice of the Peace and New Zealand Sikh Society spokesman Daljit
Singh said some claimed they had paid "agents" in India who told them they
could stay in New Zealand.
They told him an agent in India had organised all of their travel plans and
visas.
The initial plan was for them to pay a deposit of $17,000 which would get
them multiple visas for a month.
They were to travel to Auckland then on to Sydney before heading back to
India with 15 days left on their visas.
The agent would then require another $17,000 before they travelled back to
New Zealand - this time to stay as long as they wanted.
However, they discussed the plan on the plane while flying into Auckland and
decided to make a change.
"They thought `why can't we stay the first time rather than coming back and
paying another fare?'," Mr Singh said.
The Labour Department's Immigration Service is investigating the scam
allegations but a spokesman could not comment further.
Catholic Church spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer said the news was "shocking".
"As far as I know, nobody in the church would have any inkling that anything
like this was happening.
"It appears World Youth Day has been used as an excuse and that is really
quite alarming. One hopes it doesn't reach a greater scale in Australia, for
example," she said.
An Auckland woman, who hosted two of the missing men, feels she was duped.
Kim Wannenburg hosted two Indian nationals for four days, before they
disappeared.
She told Newstalk ZB the men pretended to go to the local shop to buy her
daughter a gift, but never returned.
Ms Wannenburg said she has received three phone calls from one of the men,
apologising for leaving without saying goodbye.
She said she had been in contact with police and immigration officers.
Mr Singh said he was in contact with some of the missing pilgrims, who had
told him they intended to hide from authorities.
He said they claimed they were promised residency in New Zealand but were
shocked when they were handed short-term visas on arrival.
The Labour Department yesterday said it was searching for 32 pilgrims who
had disappeared from their New Zealand billets.
Earlier today the number climbed to 35, and tonight an Immigration Service
spokesman said that four more of the pilgrims had failed to turn up to the
airport.
All of those missing are males, aged between 17 and 35.
The spokesman said all 220 Indian pilgrims in New Zealand en route to
Australia for World Youth Day were due to leave New Zealand on various
flights today, the last at 5.30pm.
"Some of those who are missing absconded from Auckland International Airport
on arrival in New Zealand in early July, while others absconded from their
billets, all but one leaving their luggage there," he said.
"All the pilgrims had been billeted with members of the Auckland Catholic
community, not specifically with Indian Catholics."
He said Immigration New Zealand was maintaining close contact with the
Catholic Church in Auckland in an effort to locate the missing men.
The spokesman said the missing men had not yet broken the law.
Their visitor permits allowed them to remain in New Zealand legally for a
month.
"Their permits can only be revoked if they are found to be in breach of the
conditions pertaining to those permits - in this case, for example, working
would be illegal because they are here on visitor permits."
Immigration New Zealand was working closely with its counterparts in
Australia on the matter.
The Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship told NZPA everyone
wishing to travel to and enter Australia must satisfy Australia's entry
requirements.
All pilgrims who had arrived in Australia had been cleared by immigration -
"they are lawfully in Australia on three-month visas, and if a missing
person report is filed this would be a matter for state police".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10521729
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enforced upon the white world against the will of its peoples, leading to
mass immigration from the third-world: Mul-cul + pol-corr = lethal mixture
for the white world. And give us back our freedom: Dismantle all
surveillance technology.
Indians are willing to work the only downside to them is if they live in the
same apartment building and their curries burn your eyes and nose off{but
sure taste good}
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> Indians are willing to work the only downside to them is if they live in
> the same apartment building and their curries burn your eyes and nose
> off{but sure taste good}
I'm pretty sure there are more downsides to them, like with all the other
third-world intruders, if you ponder a little about it. Then don't forget,
also gipsies are some kind of indians. But of course, mohammedans are the
worst among all of them.
Fantastic - just what we need. Creativity, daring and adventure.
BTW, you're still not welcome around these parts.
The website above is nothing short of cretinous.
Neolithic
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>"Raymond O'Hara" <raymon...@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>news:2bydneiOGLX1YuHV...@rcn.net...
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>> Indians are willing to work the only downside to them is if they live in
>> the same apartment building and their curries burn your eyes and nose
>> off{but sure taste good}
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>I'm pretty sure there are more downsides to them, like with all the other
>third-world intruders, if you ponder a little about it. Then don't forget,
>also gipsies are some kind of indians.
Only in the sense that white people are some kind of Asians.