Deporting Overweight Immigrants

I can understand the reason for a country’s policy to deport immigrants for committing a crime but, until now, I had never heard of anyone being deported for being overweight. A chef in New Zealand is facing deportation because he has a body mass index of 40, and immigration policy is that a person has to have a body mass index of less than 35 if he wants to remain in that country. This man has lost 66 pounds since …