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The dawn raids were crackdowns in New Zealand from 1973 to 1979 and then sporadically afterward on alleged illegal overstayers from the Pacific Islands.The raids were first introduced in 1973 by Prime Minister Norman Kirk's Labour government, who discontinued them in April 1974.
The raids involved police storming the homes of those suspected of overstaying temporary working visas, typically at dawn. Though the majority of people overstaying such visas were from the UK, Australia and South Africa, the dawn raids disproportionately targeted over-stayers of Pacific Islander heritage.
More than 1,200 officers were involved in dawn raids, in what media reports said was the biggest operation against the Cosa Nostra since 1984. The Sicilian mafia, ...
The Dawn Raids were widely condemned by various sections of New Zealand society, including the Pacific Islander and Māori communities, church groups, employers and workers' unions, anti-racist groups, and the opposition Labour Party.
A violent Tren de Aragua ringleader sought in an infamous, caught-on-camera break-in in Aurora, Colo., was nabbed Tuesday in a dramatic pre-dawn raid in New York City — across from an elementary ...
Agents raided four locations in the Denver metro area in a series of pre-dawn raids Wednesday, a federal law enforcement source told The Post. DEA could be seen deploying flash-bangs outside one ...
The Dawn Raid (Malay: Serangan Subuh) was an economic maneuver carried out by Malaysia on 7 September 1981 to reclaim control of Guthrie Corporation, a British-owned plantation company. The operation involved the rapid acquisition of its shares on the London Stock Exchange , enabling Malaysia to secure a majority stake and reclaim approximately ...
The French so-called statement of objections or charge sheet would follow dawn raids in the graphics cards sector in September last year, which sources said targeted Nvidia. The French authority ...