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Story: Andy Huynh and Sister Emailed

story: The story featured a photo of immigration officer John McEachern interviewing a group of teenagers at the Galang refugee camp in Indonesia in 1980, according to CBC. The youngest boy is wearing a striped T-shirt and staring directly at the camera, with an expression both innocent and curious. This was the case for Andy Huynh, 55, when his sister emailed him a CBC News story detailing how Canadian visa officials working in Southeast Asia helped bring tens of thousands of Vietnamese boat people to Canada. That boy was Huynh. I remember that striped shirt. He was 17 at the time. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.