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

Digital Chosunilbo ^ | 02/06/2005 | Digital Chosunilbo

[Marine Inspector]

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.

[Marine Inspector]

Ping.

[Joe Boucher]

Yep,
we need more uneducated folks coming here from wherever going in through Mexico-U.S. border. Seeking a better life.
Living off the welfare of the U.S.

[Khurkris]

They are just sneaking in to make the kimchee that Americans won't make.

...this is a joke.

[SirLurkedalot]

And plotting God knows what else.

[bill1952]

Of course, there is no threat from an open river of illegal immigrants coming through Mexico...

[bill1952]

Waiting for the La Raza members to chime in. 8^)

[JimVT]

Now available at U.S. supermarkets everywhere.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You've visited El Paso, too.

[DoctorMichael]

Send them back.

I've been a little sour on Koreans the last few years since my center hired a 30-something South Korean who immediately made statements like:

1) "Oh, Kim Jong-Il is not so bad".
2) "The US military have taken all the best land in South Korea for their bases and installations and should get out".

{{I'm NOT kidding about the quotes!!!!!!!}}

[Nooseman]

Well if they're actually defecting,then its a good thing. We can prop em up as seekers of the free west!

[Marine Inspector]

{{I'm NOT kidding about the quotes!!!!!!!}}

I believe you.

[M-cubed]

15 North Koreans were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol as they tried to smuggle themselves into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico <<<

Must have stuck out like a fox at a chicken convention...Sounds like racial profiling to me...Call the ACLU and get these people their money!...The American Dream is alive and well...

[SandRat]

PDR NK Kimchee now available is SanDiego courtesy of Coyotes.

[JustAnotherSavage]

Maybe the Mexican government will translate their "how to" comic into N. Korean and whatever else language is needed for "border crossing".

[Squantos]

Standard line for anyone "caught"......I'm a defector, help me !

[wtc911]

Agents, nothing but. The average North Korean could not "escape" to South Korea. These are infiltrators to the South who had the training and financial backing necessary to get from NK to the US. To even think that thet are anything less is to invoke Polyanna.

[monkeywrench]

The South Koreans split among right and left is about like ours.

[investigateworld]

ping pang pong

[JustAnotherSavage]

FYI