DETROIT — Mustafa, 33, a Pakistani, is hiding in a fleabag motel here, on the lam from the immigration service.
His student visa ran out 10 years ago and when the U.S. government told him he had to register by March 21, along with the rest of the Pakistani population in America, he sold his car, quit his job as a factory worker in St. Paul, Minn., and headed for Canada.
Thousands of illegal immigrants from Middle Eastern countries are seeking asylum in Canada, massing in run-down motels and refugee sanctuaries on the U.S. side of the border, where they are sheltered — and sometimes hidden — from the immigration service.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20030315-76841174.htm
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"This is the business we've chosen." - Hyman Roth
His student visa ran out 10 years ago and when the U.S. government told him he had to register by March 21, along with the rest of the Pakistani population in America, he sold his car, quit his job as a factory worker in St. Paul, Minn., and headed for Canada.
Thousands of illegal immigrants from Middle Eastern countries are seeking asylum in Canada, massing in run-down motels and refugee sanctuaries on the U.S. side of the border, where they are sheltered — and sometimes hidden — from the immigration service.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20030315-76841174.htm
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"This is the business we've chosen." - Hyman Roth
