Costly trip
Some 650 Chinese repatriated by Mexico this week will be sent to labour camps in the province of Fujian, where most of them came from, AFP reports from Peking. The would-be emigrants, who were caught at sea on their way to the United States, will do 'a few months of re-education camp', an official said.
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