Jacinda Ardern apologises for New Zealand ‘dawn raids’ on Pasifika people in 1970s

The raids on Pasifika migrants and their subsequent deportations separated families and devastated communities

New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has issued a formal apology for historic racist policing of Pacific people and offered scholarships to Pacific students.

Hundreds of people packed Auckland town hall on Sunday to hear the apology for the dawn raids" of the 1970s during which authorities hunted for visa overstayers.