were carried out to find, convict and deport people from the pacific islands suspected of overstaying their visas but never those from the uk or the us. our correspondent phil mercer in sydney explains why the prime minister decided to apologise now. new zealand rarely apologises for past injustices. but such was the gravity of these immigration raids between 1974 and 1976 in new zealand that it has prompted the prime minister, jacinda ardern, to issue this formal apology at the auckland town hall. now, these raids spread panic and terror through pacific communities in the 1970s. after the second world war, new zealand invited thousands of pacific islanders in to work to boost a workforce that had been depleted by conflict overseas. but in the 1970s the new zealand economy was beginning to falter, and all of a sudden those valuable,
Wednesday, 09 Jun 2021 04:52 PM MYT
BY JERRY CHOONG
Immigration Department personnel round up foreign workers during a raid on a construction site in Cyberjaya June 6, 2021. Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) urged the government to treat migrant workers more humanely in its efforts to curb the Covid-19 pandemic even if they are undocumented.
Its president Datuk Dr Subramaniam Muniandy condemned the strong-arm raid of undocumented migrants in Cyberjaya, Selangor last Monday, saying such methods will prompt the community to flee and hide from the authorities, complicating efforts to curb Covid-19.
Biden Census Pick Santos Recalls Government Slush Fund for National Council of La Raza
Inspired by a racist tract, rebranded nonprofit remains cozy with government
Commentary
Biden pick Robert Santos, a “Latinx statistician,” is being hailed as the nation’s first “census director of color.” If embattled Americans find that puzzling, they might take a look at the Biden pick’s actual record.
The Texas-born Santos serves as vice president of the Urban Institute, where “his specialty areas include undocumented immigrants and other disadvantaged populations.” In 2007, Santos co-authored “Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children,” a publication (pdf) that was produced for the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), an organization with origins that Americans might find troubling.
And a member of a racist hate group that wanted to build Mexico in America. Tue Apr 20, 2021
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. The media is touting Biden’s pick of Robert Santos as historic because he would be the first “census director of color”. Emphasizing the race or ethnicity of Biden’s nominees has become the media’s usual tactic for obscuring their radicalism while accusing their critics of racism. As a third-generation American whose grandparents came to this country over a century ago, whose parents raised him not to speak Spanish, Santos is hardly an oppressed minority.
a mississippi town is still plooilthss after massive workplace immigration raids. people live in fear and businesses are struggling to stay afloat after 700 mostly latino workers were arrested on the job back in august. nick valencia has more on the economic impact of what was described as the largest workplace sting in at least a decade. reporter: like so many others here, sophia hernandez is worried. three years ago she used the money she saved to buy this mexican market. now with business crippled by the i.c.e. raids in august, she doesn t know if she ll be able to keep it open. she s had to cut the hours of her employees.