@ambercat16 wrote:
I think there needs to be some common sense built into this repatriation of criminals back to NZ. In a lot of the cases, the deportee has spent all but the first year or two of their life in Australia and their families are also here. It is quite a stretch in those cases to hold NZ responsible for their criminal behaviour. Australia "raised" them so needs to carry the responsibility.
Totally different if the person was raised in and spent their formative years in NZ and then travelled to Australia and committed crime/s here. In those cases I completely agree with them being repatriated to NZ once they have served their sentence here(and I'd bet Jacinda Adern does too.)
The ones being deported may have lived nearly all of their lives here, but they haven't bothered to become citizens. If they had, they wouldn't be deported.
So if you're a kiwi and you want to commit a crime but not be sent back to NZ, become a citizen of the country you live in, instead of hedging your bets.
