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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 12:56 am Post subject: The HUNT for Illegal FOREIGNERS Continues |
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Streets Empty As Hunt for Illegal Foreigners Continues
On the afternoon this reporter visited, an eerie tension permeated the neighborhood as a group of men appeared from a van, dispersed themselves about the streets and began demanding pedestrians to show their identification cards.
"The town is empty, it feels chilly. The streets were once crowded with people, but now everything has disappeared," said Li Gil-bok, an ethnic Korean born in China who later immigrated to Korea.
Korea Times (May 13, 2005)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200505/kt2005051317482468040.htm |
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Yaya
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 1:11 am Post subject: |
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| More power to the raids, and wow, if only the United States could boot out illegals... |
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dogbert
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 1:27 am Post subject: |
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| Yaya wrote: |
| More power to the raids, and wow, if only the United States could boot out illegals... |
Yeah! Like Canada is doing.
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B.C. man guilty of human smuggling
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - A British Columbia man faces up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 US in fines after pleading guilty to attempting to smuggle 13 South Korean women and one man across the border into northern Idaho.
Authorities said Sang Yoon (Steven) Kim, 29, a Surrey, B.C., resident, was part of a prostitution smuggling ring. He was arrested shortly after midnight April 3 north of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, when U.S. Border Patrol agents, acting on a tip, stopped a recreational vehicle he was driving and discovered the illegal immigrants lying on the floor and beds of the motorhome.
Also arrested was Bum Suk (Michael) Kim, 33, a South Korean citizen who authorities said was in the U.S. illegally. Michael Kim, who is no relation to Steven Kim, was also charged with felony illegal transportation of an alien. He has entered a plea of not guilty and will go to trial in U.S. District Court in Coeur d'Alene on June 7.
In a plea agreement entered before U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge on Monday, Steven Kim said he knew the women and one other man were illegal immigrants and could not enter the U.S. legally. He told authorities he had picked up the 14 people south of the Moyie River Bridge on the Idaho side of the border after a man unknown to him guided them on foot across the international boundary.
Steven Kim told investigators he was planning to drive the 14 people to Los Angeles, where Michael Kim has a house and was to be paid $200 a person and $4,000 for expenses. He also acknowledged in an affidavit he had made three prior smuggling trips from Idaho to Los Angeles this year between January and March.
For this trip, Steven Kim said he had flown from Vancouver to Los Angeles and stayed with Michael Kim at his home before renting a motorhome April 1 and driving to Idaho.
Michael Kim accompanied Steven Kim on the trip as far as the Coeur d'Alene Casino and Resort in Worley, Idaho, where he was arrested April 3. Authorities believe he wanted to stay at the resort, about 200 kilometres south of the Canadian border, to avoid a chance encounter with U.S. immigration officials.
A sentencing date for Steven Kim has not been scheduled. Authorities have begun deportation procedures against the 13 women and one man who were found in the motorhome.
During an April 13 detention hearing for the two defendants, Lodge said there appeared to be strong evidence the women were to become prostitutes in California. The Idaho legislature has formed an interim study committee to determine whether human trafficking is on an upswing in the state following other reports of border smuggling.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/05/11/1035580-ap.html |
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chronicpride
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 1:55 am Post subject: |
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An average 400 to 500 people are leaving the country every day under the new registration system implemented in March, he said, with 22,000 people having departed the country so far.
``There is a system allowing for foreigners to be legally employed here, but there are too many who arrive through illegal ways. We hope that they may leave voluntarily and not insist on staying here just because of their personal problems,���� Kim said.
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Did I miss a March thread on this new registration system? |
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Homer
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 2:46 am Post subject: |
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Well...they are serious about this.
Nothing you can do about it and you have nothing to worry about if you are here legally. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 2:49 am Post subject: |
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| Nothing to worry about? Well, perhaps. Search and seizure is always worrying for those of us who love freedom. Me and George. Freedom crusaders. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 3:08 am Post subject: |
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Homer,
"The town is empty, it feels chilly."
Do you enjoy feeling chilly? Are you a vampire? |
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hellofaniceguy
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 3:58 am Post subject: |
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Some reporter got it backwards...they were not on their way California to be ho's...they are already ho's.
What...going to LA for on the job training?!?!? They got that in korea!
It's a well known fact...and check it out for yourselves....let your fingers do the walking through the yellow pages and the WSG. Every major city in the U.S. and Canada...has korean massage parlors with korean women doing the servicing. I tried to find the links...but can't right now...but U.S. immigration is the one that did the survey/investigation a year ago. |
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chronicpride
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 4:13 am Post subject: |
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An average 400 to 500 people are leaving the country every day under the new registration system implemented in March, he said, with 22,000 people having departed the country so far.
``There is a system allowing for foreigners to be legally employed here, but there are too many who arrive through illegal ways. We hope that they may leave voluntarily and not insist on staying here just because of their personal problems,���� Kim said.
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Did I miss a March thread on this new registration system? |
I'll answer my own question with what else was said in the article
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| The voluntary registration period that started in March has expedited the exodus of ethnic-Korean Chinese and Russian nationals from Wongok-dong. |
Looks like they are targeting the XYZ thousands of Chinese in this country again. But please don't let that get in the way of any overly paranoid teacher nail-biting. Carry on. |
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Homer
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No RR but then again I am here legally and have a real diploma.
This means that as far as immigration cracking down on illegal workers I could not care less.
If you work here illegally, it is a decision and it comes with risks. You want to play on the other side of the fence...well...you might get caught and this has consequences.
Again, this crackdown has no bearing on any teachers who are here legally. |
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peppermint
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| It does affect us, in minor ways. The immigration offices are starting to ask for more paperwork to prove that teachers are qualifed and here legally. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Who was that guy in "Catch me if you can"? Frank Abenagle? |
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jaykimf
Joined: 24 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
Homer,
"The town is empty, it feels chilly."
Do you enjoy feeling chilly? Are you a vampire? |
Realreality,
Are you an Illegal alien? Do you have a fake degree? Are you a leech? |
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Homer
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| It does affect us, in minor ways. The immigration offices are starting to ask for more paperwork to prove that teachers are qualifed and here legally. |
But that is a good thing peppermint  |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| It is and it's not. No one tells you these things till you get to the immigration office, and currently, they don't have a website in English to check for yourself ( they have a snazzy new one in Korean though). Anything that makes me go to Mok dong more than once a year is a very bad thing in my books. |
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