Canada Border Services Agency: Human Smuggler

Immigration And Refugee Dept: Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicator Geoff Rempel said Wednesday he agreed with the position of the Canada Border Services Agency that because the man arrived in Canada as part of a smuggling operation -- and was vulnerable to coercion -- there was a good chance he would not appear at a removal hearing if his refugee claim were denied, according to Vancouver Sun. The hearing heard that the man's family in China had gone to great lengths -- including an apparent payment of $30,000 to a human smuggler -- to get him to Canada and an Asian man who donned an elaborate disguise on a flight from Hong Kong to Vancouver last October has been ordered to remain in custody because he remains a flight risk. "What I've heard today does not alleviate that concern," he said. The young asylum seeker had also been ordered to remain in custody over flight risk last month. As reported in the news.
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