期刊名称：Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
印刷版ISSN：0017-8039
电子版ISSN：1943-5061
出版年度：2010
卷号：45
期号：1
出版社：Harvard Law School
摘要：“Placed on a boat bound for the United States by her very
own parents, a 15-year-old girl fled China’s rigid family planning
laws. Under these laws she was denied citizenship, education, and
medical care. She came to this country alone and desperate. And
what did our immigration authorities do when they found her?
They held her in a juvenile jail in Portland, Oregon. She was held
for eight months and was detained for an additional four months
after being granted political asylum. At her asylum hearing, the
young girl could not wipe away the tears from her face because
her hands were chained to her waist. According to her lawyer,
‘her only crime was that her parents had put her on a boat so she
could get a better life over here.’”1
