501 deportee discussions are being brought closer to home, as a Samoan-born Upper Hutt man waits to find out his fate.

Mose Vaipapa hasn't lived in Samoa since he was four but is now facing deportation back there.

He served 15 years in jail as a teenager, and says he'd rather go back to prison than Samoa.

One of the Poririua Kapiti community law centre lawyers working to keep him here, Mike Sceats, joined Heather du Plessis-Allan.

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