The dawn raids of the 1970s still haunt Pacific island people to this day.
Tigilau Ness, a New Zealand born Niuean, is an activist with Polynesian Panthers.
He's told the inquiry into abuse in care it was a racist attack based purely on the colour of their skin.
Between 1973 and the early eighties, police and immigration targeted Pacific people in a bid to ferret-out overstayers.
Our reporter, Andrew McRae has been at the inquiry in South Auckland.
