During the Dawn Raids era, Pasifika families were branded as overstayers and they were the target of systemic and personal racist attacks. These attacks sought to isolate and disenfranchise Pacific people from their communities, threatening their jobs and presence here in Aotearoa. This is, essentially, the harm of colonisation. We, as tangata whenua, were robbed of the opportunity to manaaki our tangata moana whanaunga, and that is absolutely devastating. Our right to manaaki and welcome our tangata moana whanaunga into our whare was disrupted by the Government's colonial Whare, racist immigration policies, and policing tactics. The Dawn Raids act as a tragic reminder of the reality of the racism of our political system.