{"id":1063,"date":"2017-01-12T03:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2017\/01\/12\/chinese-teenager-detained-for-wrong-answer-at-the-us-border\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T03:30:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:30:04","slug":"chinese-teenager-detained-for-wrong-answer-at-the-us-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/chinese-teenager-detained-for-wrong-answer-at-the-us-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Teenager Detained For \u2018Wrong Answer At The US Border\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A Chinese girl has been detained by American authorities for over a month after \u201cgiving [a] wrong answer to the questions asked by officials at the US border control,&#8221; said a social activist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>A Chinese girl has been detained by American authorities for over a month after \u201cgiving [a] wrong answer to the questions asked by officials at the US border control,&#8221; said a social activist.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20171201112811.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fu2wxqs-p2rD0dLc_079E3BSwscZ?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"580\" height=\"398\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo:&nbsp;news.zol<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The underage girl who held a tourist visa said her entry purpose was \u201clearning English,&#8221; which was subsequently questioned by authorities from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), said the San Francisco-based activist Yang Haiping.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The girl planned to attend summer camps in October, but it turned out she had to spend her days in a \u201csemi-official\u201d detention center for minors in the US.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20171201112814.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FjMRyZGjtf0EwelM4fdD_z4IkI_I?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"612\" height=\"407\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo:&nbsp;news.zol<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cShe burst into tears then,&#8221; said Yang, who the girl has reached out to for help.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Yang also said the detention center had no clue as to how to handle a situation like this, claiming the lawyer was not allowed to meet the girl until he went to the center for the third time.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Officials from the detention center allegedly asked the girl not to engage a lawyer, but to apply for asylum, since the wounded or abandoned underage are qualified to stay in the country through legal ways under the law of the US.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>However, the family refused to do so. The girl\u2019s father had been to the US twice in the hope of resolving the problem, but was told that there was &#8220;insufficient proof&#8221; for her release.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAYAAAAfFcSJAAAADUlEQVQImWNgYGBgAAAABQABh6FO1AAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20171201112817.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FoRkT1xA8MhTJsLEbM8AsphYzxGG?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"572\" height=\"393\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo:&nbsp;news.zol<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Repatriation is not an option for a case like this, as the girl is not considered an adult who can legally take a flight alone.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>While the US has become a popular destination for Chinese tourists in the past few years, worries of entry refusal have been rising under toughened immigration laws of the country.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A friend of Yang was previously refused entry into the US after she had given birth in the country, according to the activist.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1aApdnews\/CGTN<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gic8.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fr4MF5a2_FQCuZqmK-74Hkjndjug?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"1433\" height=\"1434\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese girl has been detained by American authorities for over a month after \u201cgiving [a] wrong answer to the questions asked by officials at the US border control,&#8221; said &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}