French Interpreter: Refugee Status

Immigration Officials Dept: Discovered inside a shipping container, the stowaways thought the vessel was heading for Europe, not Canada. The other seven people have applied for refugee status, according to CBC. One of the men not seeking refugee status, speaking through an Arab-French interpreter, he said he can't return to his homeland, because Morocco is going through an economic crisis and two of the nine stowaways discovered aboard a freighter that docked in Montreal last week told an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing Tuesday they want to stay in Canada, though they haven't applied for refugee status. Immigration officials who interviewed the two men last week said neither expressed any fear about returning to their homeland. The officials said each was asked three times whether they needed Canada's protection. As reported in the news.
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