One 29-year-old hadn’t been to New Zealand since he was six. Another with advanced dementia hadn’t lived there since the early 1970s.
The laws disproportionately affect New Zealanders – who in Septemberof the people held in immigration detention awaiting deportation – and they have long been a source of contention between the two countries.
Recent clients include a 29-year-old man who last set foot in New Zealand when he was six and a man who had never lived in New Zealand but – because he grew up in the Cook Islands – held a New Zealand passport.“You have big guys, and they’ve got tattoos, and they’ve been through the mill, and they’re sitting in our office, and they are crying; they are bawling,” Murphy says. “And it’s absolutely heart-wrenching.
Leslie Lewis at his church in Christchurch. He was deported after serving six months for a range of petty crimes.One client is Leslie Lewis, who was deported on character grounds after serving six months for a range of petty crimes including drug offences and riding a bicycle without a helmet.After his release from prison, Lewis spent seven months in immigration detention before being flown to New Zealand, leaving his children behind in Australia.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been outspoken about Australia deporting people who have spent their formative years in Australia. In 2020, she chastised former prime minister Scott Morrison for “testing” the two countries’ relationship by deporting “your people and your problems”.“We will continue to deport people when appropriate.
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