Illegal Chinese immigrants land in U.S. limbo

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Illegal Chinese immigrants land in U.S. limbo

Beijing stalls return of 39,000 of its nationals, frustrated DHS officials say

By Kari Huus

Reporter MSNBC

SEATTLE - Even as the debate over illegal immigration raged this month on Capitol Hill, 22 Chinese were among the many migrants making their way to these shores, using a scheme that is among the most dangerous and expensive ways to illegally enter the United States.

In early hours on April 5, 18 men and 4 women pried their way out of a 40-foot-long shipping container that had arrived in the port of Seattle from Shanghai the previous day after a two-week journey. They didn't get far before security guards spotted them as they tried to find a way out of the fenced shipyard, and they were soon taken into custody by U.S. border security.

Had these stowaways been Mexican, they likely would have been subject to relatively rapid deportation, with no immigration hearing, through a procedure called "expedited removal."

But dealing with illegal immigrants from China is rarely so simple. Though they are vastly outnumbered by illegal immigrants from Latin America — perhaps 500,000 among the estimated 13 million "unauthorized migrants" — they are tougher to remove, for reasons as complex as the U.S.-China relationship itself.

Here is the link for the rest of the story:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12174500/

Maybe the US State Department should stop issuing visas to Chinese students and other target catagories until the Chinese government gets with the program? Why continue to play games with these people?

After 180 days in detention let them loose on the street without work documents with barest minimum means of support and heavily fine employers that employ them. Why continue to play games with people that jerk off a broken system?

They certainly don't deserve amnesty or any eventual legal status unless they are bonefied refugees or asylees. A vast majority aren't.

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Many Chinese destroy their passports as soon as they arrive, according to Zang Guohua, a Chinese reporter in Washington, D.C., making it hard to verify their origins, especially if they entered through a third country.

"The (Chinese) government has a point. You can’t just send them back by how they look or speak," he said. "(Beijing) demand(s) some kind of documentation that associates these people with their Chinese identity."

Interesting.

If you don't know where they came from, where the hell do you deport them to?

Good question.

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let them stay everybody else does..and offer them citizenship on the spot...

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We all need to unite and not talk about illegal immigration for like a week.....we need to ween ourselves off of the addiction. I'm having much more fun talking about robot sex and Tom Cruise eating a placenta. Don't kill my buzz.

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let them stay everybody else does..and offer them citizenship on the spot...

Yeah let's set up passport print shops at every port of entry and hand one out for the low low price of $2,000 dollars cash.

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Communism = BAD

Democracy = GOOD

only answer I can come up... cold war politics still flourishes here.

... Don't kill my buzz.

okies. And I like Jolt Cola too!

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Communism = BAD

Democracy = GOOD

only answer I can come up... cold war politics still flourishes here.

... Don't kill my buzz.

okies. And I like Jolt Cola too!

They don't make that anymore if I recall.....that was good stuff. Jolt paved the way for energy drinks.

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Only on VJ can a thread about Chinese immigrants turn into a tribute to Jolt cola

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Only on VJ can a thread about Chinese immigrants turn into a tribute to Jolt cola

Six degrees of issue separation

I'm not sure Jolt could actually be called a cola.....it was pretty crazy stuff.

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I like Red Bull.

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Communism = BAD

Democracy = GOOD

only answer I can come up... cold war politics still flourishes here.

... Don't kill my buzz.

okies. And I like Jolt Cola too!

They don't make that anymore if I recall.....that was good stuff. Jolt paved the way for energy drinks.

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ????

Jolt got me through college!!!!!

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I really dunno how to work on this one. But I say see where the ship came from and ship them back there, local authorities there are to handle with the problem as they were the ones letting them in in the first place.

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Many Chinese destroy their passports as soon as they arrive, according to Zang Guohua, a Chinese reporter in Washington, D.C., making it hard to verify their origins, especially if they entered through a third country.

"The (Chinese) government has a point. You can’t just send them back by how they look or speak," he said. "(Beijing) demand(s) some kind of documentation that associates these people with their Chinese identity."

Interesting.

If you don't know where they came from, where the hell do you deport them to?

Good question.

This is a real issue. In fact, they didn't believe Javier was Mexican and wanted to deport him to Italy. How fun that would have been!

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I like Red Bull.

It's not very delicious though. The flavor is kind of weird.

Ever drink a Jolt and then take some Vivarin? Those were the days.

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In fact, they didn't believe Javier was Mexican and wanted to deport him to Italy. How fun that would have been!

Why did they think he was from Italy??

I like Red Bull.

It's not very delicious though. The flavor is kind of weird.

Ever drink a Jolt and then take some Vivarin? Those were the days.

Well I should have added, I drink Red Bull when I need to stay up. Like on a long drive or something.

Vivarin, LOL... ya I used those on all-nighters back in school.