I mentioned migrants before. An efficient, high quality, and respectful immigration system is an essential part of any country's machinery. I hope that one day we will have such a system. The bar needs to be raised significantly at Immigration New Zealand, or it needs to be replaced altogether. Whether it's the appalling delays in processing visas, the lack of transparency, the inhumanity, the inability to work remotely, or immigration officers who get their own policies wrong time and again, it's simply not good enough. Migrants make huge sacrifices to call New Zealand home, and more often than not they show the rest of us what hard work really means. They have moved to a foreign land far away and flourished, just like our own ancestors. Christopher Columbus once wrote, "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." 