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Eve Savory reports for CBC TV.
Jo Mrozewski reports for CBC Radio.
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reports on the overtaking of the ship
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Bayly has reaction from Ottawa.
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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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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
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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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