Ardern issues a sombre apology to the Pacific community for racially-targeted immigration raids that took place in the 1970s
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has formally apologised to Pacific Island people who were targeted for deportation in aggressive home raids in the mid-1970s.
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