The New Zealand Government has announced a new initiative where those seeking citizenship will treated as second-class citizens from the moment they file their citizenship application. The government explained the new process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We’re all used to being treated as second-class citizens by the government, so why deprive would-be citizens of the same experience? From now on all legally resident non-minority citizenship applicants will be subjected to a lengthy multi-year application process, with their application sits in near-eternal limbo awaiting assessment as processing times blow out ad infinitum. This new process will ensure that would-be citizens get a taste of what it’s like to be a real citizen, where the government consistently over promises and under delivers – after all, it’s important to set expectations as early as possible.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “An exception to this new process will be illegal migrants, refugees and minorities, who will be given the first-class citizenship treatment. This is just the first step in their journey of becoming a citizen, where the government continues to prioritise minorities as first-class citizens, and treats everyone else with utter contempt.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n If the bar were set any lower, it would be buried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The New Zealand Government has announced a new initiative where those seeking citizenship will treated as second-class citizens from the moment they file their citizenship application. The government explained the new process: “We’re all used to being treated as second-class citizens by the government, so why deprive would-be citizens of the same experience? From now…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}