Prime Minister John Howard apologized yesterday to a mentally-ill Australian woman who was wrongly deported to the Philippines under the conservative government's strict immigration laws, leaving a nine-year-old son in foster care.
The Philippines-born woman was deported in 2001 after authorities failed to realize she was listed as a missing person.
Officials are currently trying to relocate the woman.
"I am very sorry if anything unfairly has happened in relation to that and, on the face of it, that does appear to be the case," Howard said on ABC radio.
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