Tuesday Morning Dept: Hearings for the first of the Tamil migrants who arrived by ship on the B.C. coast last Friday started in Vancouver Tuesday morning, according to CBC. The board said the first migrant, a woman who arrived in Canada with her family, should remain in custody while investigators work to establish her identity. Another hearing has been scheduled in seven days and the first of 492 Tamil migrants to appear at a detention review hearing in B.C. should remain in custody for an additional seven days, the Immigration and Refugee board of Canada says. The hearings will determine which of the migrants will remain in custody and which will be allowed out into the community until refugee claims can be heard a process that can take months or even years. As
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