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CFIRC BREAKING NEWS - AUGUST 19, 1999
Day 8 Aug 19 "more & more repellent"
GOLLY, WHAT KIND OF 'SERVICES' CAN UNDERAGE
GIRLS POSSIBLY PERFORM FOR CANADA?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
(Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain)
Friedrich von Schiller
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"Police believe organized crime is behind the two ships. ... Most of the
children from the second ship are girls. Thirty-six of them are under
17. Police are investigating why so many children [1/3 of the human
'cargo'] were aboard the second ship alone, said RCMP Constable Tracey
Rook.
... 'They seem to be coming for reasons of work,' Immigration Canada
spokeswoman Lorna Tessier said yesterday. They have told interpreters
that they were put on the ship by their families in China." (Globe and
Mail, Thursday, August 19, 1999)
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Forgetting for the moment, the number of brothels busted recently with
Chinese Triad connections, it's repellent to think that oafish Canada is
- unwitting or not - furthering the 'cause' of child prostitution. Are
those adults travelling with them their 'minders'? No matter how many
games and teddy bears we give the kiddies; no matter that we extend full
Charter Rights to the thugs - WE CANNOT PROTECT FAMILIES IN CHINA FROM
VIOLENT RETRIBUTION FROM ORGANIZED CRIMINAL GANGS. This is an abysmally
dirty business, and one that most countries are trying to distance
themselves from.
>>From the Big Circle Boys and/or Fuk Chin's point of view, the bottom
line is NOT about "human rights" - it's about M-O-N-E-Y. Shipping those
girls here cost M-O-N-E-Y, and rest assured, somebody WILL pay (that is,
in addition to the Canadian taxpayer).
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- THE PRICE OF CARING FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNISTS -
17 MINORS FROM THE FIRST SHIP ARE NOW IN PROVINCIAL CARE
53 MINORS FROM THE SECOND SHIP (1/3 OF THE 'CARGO') ARE NOW IN
PROVINCIAL CARE
"The taxpayer's bill for taking care of the two latest groups of Chinese
migrants continues to mount. More than 50 children [actually, it's 70]
were on board the two ships that arrived in BC waters this summer and
NOT ONE had a parent or guardian with them.
They're being put up in group homes at a cost of 82-hundred dollars a
month. That includes 12-hundred dollars for an interpreter and English
courses, but does not include MEDICAL costs. The BC government is
trying to get Ottawa to pick up some of the tab. (BCTV, Wednesday,
August 18, 1999)
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THE MOST CLEAR-SIGHTED PIECE OF WRITING TO DATE ON THE ILLEGALS
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Dateline BC
August 18, 1999
Where's the enemy within?
By JIM HUME
CANOE Columnist
VICTORIA, B.C. -- The question is: When are we going to start looking
for the Canadian gangsters playing the key role in people smuggling?
We have heard about the Chinese predators who play on the hopes and
fears of poorly educated peasants with promise of luxury living on "the
golden mountain" of North America; we have listened to the tales of woe
of the boat people arriving in their hundreds off the wild and desolate
west coast of British Columbia and of the children in their midst.
But we haven't heard a word about the Canadian beasts of prey whose task
it was to meet the ships of shame, take off the illegals and whisk them
unseen and unsung into large Chinese communities in Canada and later
across one last border to the even larger Chinese populations in the
United States.
Maybe it's because any criminals running the "meet on arrival" operation
would be Canadian. And it would never do for us as a nation to admit
that without heavy local in-put from already established citizens the
modern version of the slave trade would never work.
The first rusty-ship load of Chinese travelers came offshore at Gold
River on July 20.
The second batch was plucked from the rocky beach of a remote island in
the Queen Charlottes on Aug. 11, dumped there by the crew of a nameless,
unregistered ship which deposited its human cargo then turned to flee
for the high seas only to be turned back by coastal patrol aircraft. The
nine man crew is confined awaiting trial.
A couple of weeks before the July arrivals a similar rust-bucket had
been spotted by routine air patrol. It was listing badly and appeared
abandoned.
The vessel had disappeared when, the day following its first sighting,
aircraft returned to confirm its position. It was assumed the vessel had
sunk. Of its crew and passengers, there are only guesses: That were all
lost at sea in some sort of freak storm; that they were lost after they
took to the lifeboats when the ship began to take on the water which
created its heavy list.
Or that both crew and passengers had made it ashore in one of the
thousands of remote coves which coastal security impossible -- and
vanished according to plan.
There are logistical problems with all three scenarios. The two vessels
apprehended carried no lifeboats. The derelict which later disappeared
gave every indication of being in the same condition, which poses the
question: If the two vessels with their human cargoes had not been
intercepted, how would the men, women and young children now seeking
"economic refuge" get from boat to land?
The options: They were scheduled to rendezvous with another vessel to
pick up crew and passengers leaving the already close to derelict
"mother ship" to sink; they could be dropped on a pre-arranged beach in
a remote cove to await pick-up and transfer to a city which could
provide a large ethnic backdrop into which the new arrivals could merge;
or they made sure they were apprehended.
All would require heavy, detailed, expensive, coordinated local effort
from enterprising Canadian players, criminal or unwitting, in the slave
trade.
In the days of outrage, whipped beyond the point of reason by babbling
radio and near hysteria news reports, West Coast Canadians demanded all
the wretched people on the boats be immediately shipped back to China
and that the Chinese government immediately arrest and jail the human
cargo organizers at the point of origin.
As of this date there has been no demand for extra money for the RCMP to
establish a special team to find out who runs the crucial Canadian end
of the illegal pipeline, and what their rake-off is from this evil,
lucrative, trade.
That it is lucrative there is no doubt with the "passengers" charged
anywhere from $20,000 to $48,000 a head for transportation and
re-location -- with no money down and repayments scheduled at a generous
30 to 50 per cent the weekly pay.
So, where do these "economic refugees" go to work to get the money to
pay their "immigration" fees? We are told if they get ashore undetected
they can find work as dishwashers, sewing in garment production sweat
shops, or doing other menial jobs too sordid for soft Canadian hands.
But don't they need a social security number before they can go to work
for a legitimate business, or at least a work permit of some kind? Sure
they do, but only if the employer is fussy enough to ask. If he's happy
to get a dishwasher for half the minimum wage, or a seamstress too
scared to ask for more, well, what's a little larceny if it puts money
in his pocket?
If only adults were involved in the trading in human ignorance and
flesh, it would be bad enough, but each boat has carried a high number
of children. In the first apprehended boat load there were 17 teenage
boys aged 14 to 18. In the second boatload there were 50 children
ranging in age from an estimated eight year old to 18 years. Among them
were 18 females ranging in age from 11 to 18.
Some were travelling with their parents or a close relative. Most -- as
many as 40 -- were unaccompanied.
Their ultimate destinations and occupations in the care of kind
Canadians hosts does not invite close scrutiny.
There is one last optional scenario in this drama of "economic refugees"
which sees boatloads of people arriving off the West Coast without
papers, without money, on boats without flags or registration, and which
demands a highly involved, efficient, Canadian-end organization to make
it worth repeating over an over again at great profit.
That option would see not criminals, but Canadian Immigration playing
the key role of changing nameless, penniless, paperless, pawns of
Chinese criminals, into money-in-the-bank, with official papers, SS
number and refugees and soon-to-be-landed immigrants status progressing
to full citizenship.
Whether they cross our border in secret with a criminal helping hand, or
in the glare of hoped for apprehension and an official welcome, it can't
work unless Canadians, with evil or the best intent, make it work at the
terminal end.
One last thing, for sure. Whether these poor sods come in under cover of
criminal darkness, or in the full glare of media spotlight, the
enforcers among them, or waiting for them, will be on hand to collect
the China-made loans even if it takes 20 years.
Which brings me back to original question: when are we going to start
looking for and at the Canadians -- criminals, enforcerer debt
collectors or immigration policy makers -- without whom there would be
no boat people?
Jim Hume's column appears Wednesdays
(Jim Hume is a long-time veteran of journalism, most recently with the
Victoria Times-Colonist, where he still appears weekly while enjoying
the fruits of semi-retirement. He can be reached via e-mail at
jhume@home.com)
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TRY NOT TO LAUGH: IMMIGRATION CANADA IS "BIASED"
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Victoria Times-Colonist
Thu 19 Aug 1999 News A1 / Front
Immigration accused of anti-migrant bias
Immigration is biased against the latest boatload of Chinese migrants, a
Victoria legal aid lawyer charged Wednesday.
Don Bohun made the accusation at a hearing before Immigration and
Refugee Board adjudicator Pierre Turmel. Bohun also suggested Turmel
remove himself from the case because he too is biased.
It was another twist in a wild saga than began July 20 with a first
boatload of smuggled migrants at Gold River. It continues with a second
group rescued Aug. 11 from a Queen Charlotte beach.
The ponytailed Bohun argued that Immigration officials haven't made
reasonable efforts to verify identities of the migrants and as a result
are detaining them unfairly ``because they want to hold these people to
satisfy political ends,'' he told a clearly agitated Turmel. ``It's not
fair.''
Immigration spokeswoman Lorna Tessier said the process followed with
these migrants is the same as with those coming into Canada at any port
of entry,
Immigration officials and a team of almost a dozen legal aid lawyers
don't often see eye to eye. However, they agree the unusual nature of
these cases forces some improvisation.
Lawyers say there is a clear difference between how the first boatload
was treated legally compared to the second. Immigration says everything
is by the book but the process is being refined.
As well, the legal aid lawyers have become more aggressive.
For the migrants, life is much the same.
After being taken into custody, both groups were housed on cots in the
gym at Work Point Barracks, guarded by numerous Mounties and Immigration
officers. Troublemakers are segregated.
Immigration officers determine whether the migrants have a right to be
in Canada. By law the migrants must have detention hearings within seven
days of being taken into custody.
Those ordered removed must go before an adjudicator for detention
hearings while Immigration gets travel documents. They work with the
Chinese embassy and consulate.
Hearings began Wednesday for the latest group.
Small groups of handcuffed migrants, wearing either olive-green or red
jumpsuits and pool-style sandals, are moved under heavy security across
the base by van to a navy administration building.
The Immigration and Refugee Board, a body independent of Immigration,
usually holds detention hearings at its secure offices.
The large numbers make that impossible, so most hearings are in an
81-year-old wood building, once an army headquarters but home since 1994
to the Navy's officer training administration.
More than a dozen sailors and one civilian employee continue their work
as RCMP and Immigration officers, most in fatigues and some in
bullet-proof vests, escort the migrants.
Each hearing has a slightly different tone yet the main arguments remain
the same. Don't detain the migrants because Immigration didn't make
reasonable efforts to pin down identities and they didn't get hearings
within the required time.
They are not successful arguments but the lawyers have no illusions.
They say their job is to get all their points on record.
Lawyer Rory Morahan said issues need to be on the record before possible
appeals in federal court.
Bohun first argued he wasn't ready to proceed until handcuffs were
removed from the four women migrants. He then challenged Turmel to
excuse himself because he was biased.
Turmel dismissed both arguments.
Immigration issued 58 removal orders among the 131 migrants on the
latest boat. Some had detention hearings Wednesday with most seeking
leave to appeal to federal court for refugee status.
By the end of the day, 19 migrants -- 15 females and four males -- had
detention hearings and all were ordered held in custody for at least
another seven days.
There are also 43 unaccompanied children who could be in B.C. group
homes after hearings today. Ten other migrants have been given leave to
apply for refugee status, 20 more are having their cases reviewed after
initially been ordered out. Nine crews members are in custody and face
charges.
Immigration's hearing officer Rick McNeill was brief in comments to
Turmel. The jovial Vancouver resident, who is eligible for retirement in
45 days after 21 years on the job, says the law is clear.
The migrants have been ordered removed. They need to stay in custody and
then be sent home, he said. Immigration says there are security issues
as well as a need to ensure they don't disappear.
Turmel says his jurisdiction is limited and some legal arguments have
nothing to do with the hearings, such as whether migrants had access to
phones or faxes.
The migrants, meanwhile, are now being sorted and dressed by colour.
Suspected smuggling ring organizers wear red jumpsuits, the others
olive-green.
Lawyer David Aujla said that is unfair and one of his women clients is
distraught over being singled out.
Late Wednesday afternoon one of red-jumpsuited women was removed to
Western Community RCMP cells. Rook said it was a security issue but
wouldn't elaborate.
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"THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW THAT AUSTRALIA IS NOT SUCH
A SOFT TOUCH WHEN IT COMES TO ILLEGAL BOATPEOPLE"
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Australia returns illegal migrants to China
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - Australia has deported 101 Chinese citizens caught
trying to sneak into the country on boats this spring.
Thursday's move was made to try to discourage others from making a
similar journey, the government said.
Australia also released a statement in China warning people that anyone
who tries to enter the country illegally will be detained.
"I hope that the very public return of the group will send a strong
message to others that they shouldn't believe the lies peddled by people
traffickers," Australia's Minister of Immigration said.
The world needs to know that "Australia is not such a soft touch when it
comes to illegal boatpeople," Philip Ruddock added.
In case the threat is not enough, Australia plans to spend more money on
coastal surveillance.
In the first six months of this year, more than 600 illegal migrants
have been nabbed trying to get into Australia by sea. Most were from
China.
(excerpted> CBC Newsworld, WebPosted Thu Aug 19 1999)
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