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>Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 19:40:31 -0800 (PST)
>Subject: [edo-community] Dead stowaway was 'desperate man indeed' (National
Post)
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>01/04/2001
>National Post
>National
>A04
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>TORONTO - A Zimbabwean foreign student killed while
>trying to sneak into the
>United States from Canada by clinging to the underside
>of a Greyhound bus
>was apparently making a desperate bid to illicitly
>cross the border after
>U.S. authorities revoked his visa for alien smuggling.
>A day before the dead stowaway was found tangled
>beneath the Buffalo-bound
>bus, Customs agents in Detroit caught the same man
>entering the United
>States from Windsor with a family member concealed in
>his car, police and
>immigration officials said yesterday. The men were
>returned to Canada.
>He made his way to Niagara Falls, Ont., where he
>bought a bus ticket to
>Buffalo. Instead of boarding the bus, however, he
>"secreted himself in a
>small compartment at the rear" and hid there until the
>driver stopped at the
>border, said Joseph Riga, the Buffalo police homicide
>chief.
>Police suspect the man became frightened when the bus
>stopped at U.S.
>Customs and the passengers disembarked with their
>luggage for inspection. He
>appears to have clambered deeper into the vehicle's
>undercarriage in an
>effort to hide, eventually clinging to the driveshaft.
>When the driver later moved the bus, he heard a
>"clunk" and got out to look,
>said Roger Pike, vice-president of Greyhound Canada.
>He found the man
>wrapped around the driveshaft. It took Buffalo police
>until noon yesterday
>to extract the body. An autopsy was underway last
>night.
>The man was carrying a Zimbabwean passport identifying
>him as Andrew
>Mazanembi, a foreign student in Texas. But officials
>are being cautious
>about confirming his identity since it is possible the
>passport was not his.
>U.S. immigration authorities said they had been unable
>to locate the
>relative, also a Zimbabwean.
>Mr. Mazanembi came to the United States on a visitor's
>visa but then
>obtained a student authorization allowing him to
>attend college. Frances
>Holmes, district director of the Immigration and
>Naturalization Service,
>said his U.S. visa was stripped from his passport on
>Monday when he was
>caught smuggling.
>A Canadian immigration official said after being
>turned back at the U.S.
>border, the man would have been taken to the
>Citizenship and Immigration
>Canada office in Windsor and released on the
>understanding he would return
>to Zimbabwe.
>But he apparently decided to risk an illegal crossing.
>"He must have been a
>desperate man indeed," Mr. Pike said. "I don't know
>how on Earth he'd be
>able to get in there and stay on. We've had passengers
>try to get on buses
>without tickets but this is just bizarre."
>The incident is the latest in a string of far-fetched
>alien smuggling
>attempts foiled at the Canada-U.S. border -- yet more
>evidence that Canada
>is being used as a transit point by illegal migrants
>destined for the United
>States.
>Rather than trying to bring their human cargo directly
>to the U.S.,
>smugglers often direct them to Canada and then help
>them slip south using a
>variety of schemes such as forged travel documents and
>concealed
>compartments in vehicles.
>A year ago, 10 Koreans were arrested after crossing
>the border into New York
>in the back of a recreational vehicle, crammed
>underneath two beds in the
>back compartment, sealed in with a metal door that
>could only be opened from
>the inside. The Koreans paid $3,000 to be smuggled
>from Toronto to New York,
>an arrangement made through a travel agency in Seoul.
>A Peruvian woman died in 1999 after a botched attempt
>to cross the border by
>train. Her leg was severed as she tried to leap from
>the flatcar she and
>five others hoped would spirit them to the United
>States.
>A few weeks earlier, border guards found four Chinese
>women stowed beneath a
>fish truck, two of them badly chilled and sick from
>exhaust fumes. Migrants
>from as far away as Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia have
>also been caught
>trying to sneak into the United States at Niagara
>Falls.
>
>Black & White Photo: Harry Rosettani, The Canadian
>Press / A fire crew
>leaves the scene Tuesday night at the U.S. customs
>inspection station
>between Buffalo and Fort Erie, Ont., after police
>discovered the body of a
>man wrapped around the driveshaft of a Greyhound bus.
>It took Buffalo police
>until noon yesterday to remove the body. (Photo ran in
>All but Toronto
>edition only.)
>Copyright © 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights
>Reserved.
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