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15 N. Koreans Nabbed Crossing U.S.-Mexico Border

Anonymous - 2-7-2005 at 08:35 AM

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200502/200502060...

Feb.6,2005

Fifteen presumed North Korean defectors who had settled in South Korea were arrested for trying to sneak into the U.S.

The Los Angeles-based Association of People From Five Northern Provinces said on Sunday it learned that 15 North Koreans were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol as they tried to smuggle themselves into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico. But the association?s president Kim Ho-jeong added it remained to be confirmed whether the 15 really were defectors.

The 15, who are being held at an immigration detention center in San Diego, California, said they intended to seek political asylum in the U.S. after previously settling in South Korea. Kim Yong, the head of another defectors? association in Los Angeles, said that under U.S. law such individuals were usually deported.

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