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Sunday, May 31, 2009

7NB - Illegal Chinese Nationals Deported to Guatemala

From my archive of press clippings:

7 News Belize


Illegal Chinese Nationals Deported to Guatemala

posted (April 16, 2009)


For three weeks we’ve been telling you about the nine Chinese nationals who came into Belize without visas, and have been detained at the Hattieville Prison. Well, tonight, finally, we can report that they’re gone. After two weeks when they should have gone, but somehow never did, they were loaded up at the Hattieville Prison today and sent, not to the airport, but to the western border.

Read the whole article here.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do the Guatemalans have to agree to accept them?

Baghdad Anne said...

Wow. This was going on when I worked anti-smuggling issues for DOS back in 1991!!! (i.e. young Chinese males transiting Belize en route to the US). It's like deja vu all over again!!!