17 Feb 2025
Immigration Minister refuses to intervene in deportation of 18-year-old
The Immigration Minister has refused to intervene and stop the deportation of an 18-year-old to India - a place where he knows no one and doesn't speak the language. Daman Kumar was born just eight weeks after a law change that removed automatic citizenship from all babies born in New Zealand. Kumar's lawyer Alastair McClymont spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.