A migrant advocate says the 40 men found living at a squalid Tāmaki Makaurau property on Sunday are in need of jobs – not food anymore.

Mandeep Bela, president of the Union Network of Migrants, said “they’re being looked after for now”.

“The migrants are being helped by Police, and Immigration,” he told Newshub on Tuesday.

But the men desperately want offers of work so they can support themselves, he said.

“They are experienced – for example some technicians, truck drivers, construction workers – they can do a lot of different roles.”

It comes after police found 40 men living in an overcrowded three-bedroom home in Auckland on Sunday.

The men had arrived in Aotearoa on accredited employer work visas, and called police at the weekend as they were forced to beg for food when their supplies ran out.