Stalemate over Indian students
Church says students welcome for as long as they need sanctuary.
Church says students welcome for as long as they need sanctuary.
COMMENT: The visa applications of the Indian students sheltering in an Auckland church are fraudulent and the law is the law.
Nine Indian students facing deportation orders for visa fraud have been told no action will be taken against them today.
COMMENT: I am stunned at the New Zealand Government's decision to deport a large number of Indian students.
COMMENT: This 31-year-old says at 19 he was forced to serve in Robert Mugabe's secret police and participated in up to 20 murders, several rapes and multiple tortures.
New Zealand's most senior Catholic has appealed to fellow Catholic, Prime Minister Bill English, to reconsider plans to deport Indian
COMMENT: Auckland needs to work harder and closer to build a two-way, long-term New Zealand-China relationship.
An Auckland man has failed in his appeal against a jail sentence for beating his wife with a hammer.
Labour leader will make a last-ditch appeal to the Government not to deport a group of Indian students over fraudulent documents submitted by their immigration agents.
President Donald Trump denounced arguments against his immigration order as "disgraceful".
Immigration and the economy among topics English and Trump discuss in brief telephone call.
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at mainstream polls that showed his controversial travel ban was unpopular.
If Australia's Turnbull got Grumpy Trump, English got "friendly, warm, thoughtful" Trump and even an invite to the White House "if you're passing by".
A church harbouring Indian students facing deportation asks the Government to allow them to stay on compassionate grounds.
The Auckland church that hosted NZ's first same-sex marriage has decided to give sanctuary to nine Indian students facing deportation over a student visa fraud.
President Donald Trump has tweeted that the ruling of a judge against his travel ban is "ridiculous and will be overturned".
COMMENT: There is frustration as well as fury in the messages mainstream media are receiving. Somehow we need to work out what is not being said.
COMMENT: Readers of a certain age might remember when there was a degree of prejudice against the wave of immigrants from the Netherlands, Brian Fallow writes.
A Tauranga man sentenced in connection with a recent high-profile human trafficking case has avoided jail after offering to pay full reparation to his victims.
Billionaire Peter Thiel claimed in a citizenship application that if his unusual request was granted he would tell the world he was a New Zealander.
Nearly one in two Americans support Donald Trump's block on some immigrants
Citizens of the seven countries targeted by Donald Trump in the name of preventing terrorism have not been known to previous cause terrorism in the US.
Political Roundup: English's middling approach to the Trump immigration controversy might lose him support, but he's focused on keeping onside with the superpower.
The Prince of Wales has warned the world is in danger of "forgetting the lessons of the past" in a speech about the Holocaust.
New Zealand's strong economic growth story looks set to be underpinned this year by ongoing record net migration flows, economists said.
Migrants do not dilute New Zealand's cultural identity despite more coming from non-traditional source countries, experts say.
In 2016, more migrants came to New Zealand on work visas and more holidaymakers arrived than ever before.
Google has donated US$2 million ($2.75m) to refugee causes and hopes its employees will match the gift in response to Donald Trump's travel ban.