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To Where You Once Came From ~ Berna Cruz's Ordeal
She was
asked how she could have a Latin name. The officers were not convinced when
Cruz, who was born in Thiruvananthapuram, told them that her family is from
Goa, where such names are common.
Full text at http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2003-8/supp1/BernaCruz.html
Canadian
In Passport Fiasco
Humiliated
by immigration staff
Feb. 14, 2003. 05:32 AM
JIM RANKIN (STAFF REPORTER)
A Toronto
woman coming home from India says she was pulled aside at Chicago's O'Hare Airport,
accused of using a fake Canadian passport, denied consular assistance and threatened
with jail.
In tears
and desperate, Berna Cruz says she told U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Services (INS) officers she didn't want to go to jail. She told them she had
to get home to her two children and was expected to be at work the next day
at a branch of a major Toronto bank where she works as a loan officer.
Instead
of jailing her on Jan. 27, an INS officer cut the front page of Cruz's passport
and filled each page with "expedited removal" stamps, rendering it
useless.
She was
photographed, fingerprinted, barred from re-entering the U.S. for five years
and immediately "removed."
Not to Toronto, but to India, where she had just spent several weeks visiting
her parents. It took four days, and help from Canadian officials in Dubai and
a Kuwaiti Airlines pilot, to get her back home.
Some excerpts
from the reports
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.culture.region.india.goa/1413
Re: INS-deported
Canadian a Goan??
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.culture.region.india.goa/1422
The
Fourth Meeting of the Goan Engineers & Professionals held February 9, Toronto.
Topics discussed:
- Safety
in the workplace.
- Keeping
Fit & Healthy in the Working Environment.
- Opportunites
For Engineers.
- Immigrant
Engineers obtaining their professional designation.
- Problems
of Student Engineers.
- Setup
of Goan Networking/Business Group.
For details see http://www.goanvoice.ca/2003/issue4/GoanEngineers.htm
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