Illegal, part one: How the Covid lockdown revived the role of a 'Tongan Robin Hood' last at work for overstayers in the 1980s
Every Friday, he delivers food parcels to 2500 overstayers who survive in a shadow world.
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The Illegals: How the Covid lockdown revived the role of a 'Tongan Robin Hood' last at work for overstayers in the 1980s
Tongan Robin Hood, Kennedy Maeakafa Fakan’aana’a-ki-Fualu, who organises deliveries of groceries to Tongan overstayer families. Thousands of people live in Aotearoa illegally, surviving in a shadow world of cash jobs, without benefits or healthcare. In the first of a three-part series going inside the world of overstayers, National Correspondent Steve Kilgallon reports on the lives of an estimated 2500 Tongan overstayers. During the first coronavirus lockdown, Mary* watched Jacinda Ardern’s press conferences every day. Even a year later, the prime minister’s most memorable catchphras...
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