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    Government Rules Teen Must Go Back to China

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    June 21, 2005, 6:47AM

    Government rules teen must go back to China
    Associated Press

    Immigration officials have ruled that a teenage refugee must return to his native China despite his claims that he will be killed by the smugglers who got him to America.

    The U.S. Department of Justice's Board of Immigration Appeals last week denied a request to reopen the case of 17-year-old Young Zheng, who's being held at a federal juvenile detention center in Houston.

    Zheng's lawyers say they have new evidence that smugglers who helped Young enter the United States have threatened to kill him and his family because they owe the smugglers $60,000.

    But immigration officials found Zheng's claim "highly speculative and lacking in objective support."

    "He argues in the motion that his family in China has been harassed and threatened, but not harmed," the board ruled.

    Zheng's lawyers in Houston said they are disappointed with the ruling. On Saturday, they appealed to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and asked to postpone Young's deportation until the court decides the case.

    The lawyers vowed to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.

    Zheng has said he left China because he faced "extreme discrimination" as the second child of a couple who defied China's one-child policy. His mother has died, and his father remains in China.

    He says the smugglers who brought him from China have threatened to kill him. After Zheng was detained, he smashed his head against a wall at the airport, knocking himself unconscious and requiring a brief hospitalization, an episode that led officials to consider him a risk to flee.

    Zheng came to the U.S. illegally in January 2003 and later attended high school in Akron, Ohio, where he lived with an uncle.

    Debbie Fulkman, Zheng's physical science teacher at Central-Hower High School in Akron, said she has not given up hope. "We're optimistic that our country will do something to help him," Fulkman said.
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    This is too funny. Had this child been a Mexican illegal, all we'd hear from the OBL is "how dare we deport this child, the parents illegal behavior is of no fault of the childs, we should give this child a chance, blah, blah, blah. I guess the OBL only works one way (Mexican that is).
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