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Chinese migrants weep at immigration hearing
WebPosted Mon Jan 10 18:19:46 2000

WINDSOR, ONT. - Ten teenage Chinese migrants wailed and sobbed during an immigration hearing Monday that ordered they stay in custody until next week when an adjudicator decides if they will be deported.

The hearing was postponed after four of the migrants told an adjudicator they were younger than they originally indicated.


Four of the girls originally said they were 18 years old. But on Monday morning, they told the adjudicator they were between 15 and 17 years old, which means someone must be appointed to represent them.

The girls arrived in British Columbia illegally from China, then made their way to southwestern Ontario, where they were found in the back of a van near Wallaceburg last week.

Police believe the plan was to smuggle them across the border into the U.S. Two people have been arrested for smuggling.

Immigration officials say the girls are not co-operating. They claim to speak no English but immigration lawyers have a confiscated diary written in English.

The adjudicator ordered all of the girls to stay in custody until another hearing next week.

The group is from the Chinese province of Fujian, the same origin of 590 migrants who arrived off the B.C. coast on four broken-down boats this summer.


Pat Jeflyn reports for CBC TV.
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