First published SEP 29, 2023 Updated 25 minutes ago Podcast: The Detail ‘Let these young people have a life' is the plea from a lawyer for an Afghan teenager living without her parents in New Zealand. She's one of a dozen children who fled here when the Taliban took over who are now forcibly separated from their families. It's not difficult to tug on the heartstrings when you tell immigration stories of families split up by the traumas of war, but this story about children living without their parents on the other side of the world is especially agonising.

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