Foliaki first spoke about the case on Tagata Pasifika on Saturday in the days since Immigration NZ has admitted the early morning raid was not a one-off – “18 or 19″ interactions with “customers” between July 2022 and April 2023 have occurred “outside of hours”, equivalent to around 3% of all interactions. The incident sounds very much like one of the infamous dawn raids of the 1970s, but it happened just last week. “They were terrified … and crying and very, very upset and scared” as their father was taken into custody, Soane Foliaki told RNZ’s Morning Report. According to his lawyer, the family were still asleep, and the children downstairs were the first to hear people banging on the door. In the early hours of the morning, police came to the door of a Tongan man living in South Auckland who had overstayed his visa. In 2023, an echo of the inhumane dawn raids of the 1970s To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Immigration NZ has been put on notice over early-morning raids on the homes of overstayers, writes Catherine McGregor in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up.
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