The Education Minister is being called out for allegedly inferring international students dishonestly exploited a back door to residency under study to work rights.
In a press release about the government's immigration reset Chris Hipkins said "the future will be different, we won't be going back to National's volume over value approach that became a backdoor to residency for lower-skilled and lower-paid migrant workers."
The International Students Association says the comments suggest overseas students have misused residency pathways that have been legally available to them and it fuels anti-migrant attitudes.
The Association's national president Vikram Selvaraj talks to Lisa Owen.
