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Eve Savory reports for CBC TV.

Jo Mrozewski reports for CBC Radio.


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Illegal immigrants headed for Esquimalt
WebPosted Thu Aug 12 19:20:10 1999

PORT HARDY, B.C. - Accompanied by RCMP and immigration officers, the illegal immigrants plucked off a beach on the Queen Charlotte Islands, have arrived in Port Hardy, on Vancouver Island.

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By Thursday night they will all be inside CFB Esquimalt, where the process of identifying them and discovering their reasons for being on the suspected smuggling ship, will begin.


The CBC's Norman Hermant on Canada's immigration policy
In all there are about 130 people; men, women and children who were dropped into the water near the shore on Wednesday. They were discovered shortly after by military and immigration officials.

The ship, which Canadian police and military had been tracking since Monday, tried to escape but was eventually caught by and RCMP boat.

The eight crew members are also in Port Hardy. Although they won't be traveling with the others to Esquimalt. They'll be kept in custody at the Port Hardy RCMP detachment.

The crew, believed to be Korean, are all facing charges under the federal immigration act. They will appear before a justice of the peace sometime on Friday.

Police also said Thursday they had found four more of the ship's passengers. They had run into the woods. The RCMP says it now believes all of the people who were on the ship have been accounted for.

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