{"id":40054,"date":"2021-12-24T12:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/24\/family-set-to-be-deported-from-new-zealand-on-christmas-day-given-last-minute-reprieve"},"modified":"2021-12-24T12:47:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:47:04","slug":"family-set-to-be-deported-from-new-zealand-on-christmas-day-given-last-minute-reprieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40054","title":{"rendered":"Family set to be deported from New Zealand on Christmas Day given last-minute reprieve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the turnaround, campaigners say the Santos\u2019 case illustrates wider problems with NZ\u2019s treatment of migrants <\/p>\n<p>A Philippine family set to be deported from New Zealand on Christmas Day after the father used a false address to claim food vouchers out of desperation has been granted a last-minute reprieve in what they described as the \u201cbest present\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Santos had used a false address to claim $1,600 in vouchers because he lost his job when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/ardern-urges-new-zealanders-to-act-like-you-have-covid-19-as-lockdown-looms\">Covid lockdown struck in March 2020<\/a> and was ineligible for New Zealand\u2019s income relief payment, which wasn\u2019t available to migrant workers. As a result, Jeffrey, his wife, Marjorie, and 8-year-old son James were to be deported back to the Philippines on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/24\/family-set-to-be-deported-from-new-zealand-on-christmas-day-given-last-minute-reprieve\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the turnaround, campaigners say the Santos\u2019 case illustrates wider problems with NZ\u2019s treatment of migrants A Philippine family set to be deported from New Zealand on Christmas Day after the father used a false address to claim food vouchers ou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40055,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40054\/revisions\/40055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}