text: In December 2019, Stuff reported that returning New Zealand deportees from Australia had established local chapters of the Comanchero and Mongols biker gangs in New Zealand. Many of these gang members had been deported under Section 501 of the Australian Migration Act 1958, which has accelerated the deportation of criminal non-residents from Australia since 2015
  Gang patches
  Some political leaders including the-then Māori Party co-leader Pita Sharples have called for gang patches to be made illegal. In 2009 the Wanganui District Council voted to ban gang patches, but it was overturned following a judicial review instigated by the Hells Angels. The council tried again in 2011, this time restricting the ban to just the central business district, malls and parks. A law banning gang patches from government and public buildings was introduced in 2012 by National Party Member of Parliament (MP) Todd McClay. Police welcomed the law, but critics such as Mana Movement MP Hone Harawira claimed it was racist against Māori. It was passed as the Prohibition of Gang Insignia in Government Premises Act 2013, and has been in force since August 2013.
  In February 2024, The Sixth National Government of New Zealand comprising the National Party, ACT Party and New Zealand First announced plans to ban Gang patches in public.