‘If you want to torture somebody, this is what you do’: Immigrants plead for end to family separation | The Spinoff
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When the borders closed in March 2021, immigrants who were cut off from their families never imagined they'd still be waiting to be reunited more than a year later. Now many are at their breaking point, they tell Branko Marcetic. Despite all the worries that had driven Johan and Sumari Steyn to l