thursday july 21, 2005

how are you woni -- did you know?


i was finally kicked out of korea.

so i hope you didnt send me anything.

but the other people in yeosu immigration (actually all immigration centers all over korea--still need help)

im in new york city:: read this:

thursday july 21, 2005

i am back in new york

i was illegally deported

(because i haven''t been paid my wages from working

at a hagwon in pusan, and because i have human rights case

petition filed against immigration and the pusan police dept)

first i was tricked and forced onto a van at Yeosu

Immigration after resisting and refusing to cooperate

(because I was not allowed to make a phone call to

Mr. Lee Jun Sang of the Democratic Labor Party in Cheonnamdo)

Then at Incheon Airport I was forcibly

put on asiana flight to new york

(because i passivley resisted)

at 7 something pm

which arrived about 14 hours later

at JFK airport around 8:30pm

on the same day (but of course different time zone)

i was escorted by the pusan ShilJang Mr. Lim

and a more junior immigration officer Mr. Yim Seong Jin

all the way to new york on the flight and through

customs

(Mr. Lim was very kind to me the entire time. And didn''t

stamp a deportation mark in my passport.)

peacelove

jesusbless

more later

tony

im in the bronx

at my sisters house now

gotta get a job

etc

-----------------

more on the forced deportation

(now i am with an old friend in the bronx not far from my sister)

in the airport, i resisted by laying down on the floor after going

through the immigration check in point

and shouted out in a loud voice (in korean and english)

that my human rights were being violated

this did not make the incheon immigration officials,

who were escorting me, happy in the least bit

they dragged, choked, kicked and elbowed me

and put me onto an electric cart

to transport me to the boarding gate

i stopped shouted because one of the officers

cut off my air supply by pressing on my trachea

i was exhausted and did not resist again until i was taken onto the

plane where i shouted out to the passengers on board that i was being

kidnapped etc. but strangely enough, it didn''t cause much of a stir

except that at the airplane entrance there was an asiana airline

staff person, "persurer KIM EUN HO" who i then complained to. But

he ignored me. And Only told Mr Lim and Mr. Yim that they had to tell

him that I was a "special passenger". THEN Another person came down.

I couldn''t follow all that was said. But I decided to give up

physically resisting then, but I contined to shout but eventually

stopped and sat down because no one seemed to care.

peaceloveblessings,

tony





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July 23, 2005. Saturday. I'm back in NYC-- since Wednesday, July 20th. Check out my home for the last four months at: http://yeosu.immigration.go.kr/ -I managed to get the interest of Yeosu MBC investigative reporter, BOM GIYOUNG, who interviewed CHOI SEONG GUN, a Korean Chinese worker; YANG SEUNG CHUN, a Yeosu Immigraton senior officer--the JosaShiljang; and KIM SEONG SUP, of the local Labor of Ministry office. The report: http://www.ysmbc.co.kr/news/news_view.html?category=MBC?????µ•¿Ã&uid=34305&p=7 ?Ûº æÔ-R(ø©ºˆ) ??? : ¸±‚ø ,??µÓœ¿ : 2005.07.12 ?? : 17 ?£¡£Œ?? and before on May 20th: http://www.ysmbc.co.kr/news/news_view.html?category=MBC´º12?õµ¥?uid=31897&p=34 -- the OHMYNEWS.COM story--Prison Diary of an English Teacher [Exclusive] One visa-less American has spent two months in prison awaiting deportation from Korea ---actually i did more than just wait. i agitated continuously for better conditions at the detention center -- through submitting a steady stream of written and telephoned petitions to the National Human Rights Comission of Korea and numerous other institutions, institutes and bodies of government. --part 1 http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=226771&rel_no=1 --part 2 http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=226858&rel_no=1