The government has cancelled the visas of child sex offenders, drug dealers and violent assailants in urgent decisions to overturn tribunal rulings that let them stay in Australia.
Despite moving to Australia as a child and raising his whole family here, a criminal conviction over methamphetamine means Stephen is facing deportation to a country where he has no ties.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is uncertain whether the number of 501 deportees coming from Australia will increase after his transtasman counterpart.
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