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Death of a Detained Immigrant from Hong Kong Provokes Nationwide Outrage in US
Ng had moved to the US as early as 1992 and was employed as a computer engineer in New York. He had married a US citizen who bore him two sons.
But everything came down crashing last year when he approached the immigration headquarters with the fond hope of finally getting his green card.
Unfortunately for him, he had overstayed a visa years earlier. In 2001, a notice ordering him to appear in immigration court was mistakenly sent to a nonexistent address, records show. When Ng did not show up at the hearing, the judge ordered him deported.
By then, however, he was getting married, and on a separate track, his wife petitioned Citizenship and Immigration Services for a green card for him - a process that took more than five years. Heeding bad legal advice, the couple showed up for his green card interview on July 19, 2007, only to find enforcement agents waiting to arrest Ng on the old deportation order.
Thereafter he was shuttled through jails and his health deteriorated. In April, Ng began complaining of excruciating back pain. By mid-July, he could no longer walk or stand. And last Wednesday, two days after his 34th birthday, he died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a Rhode Island hospital, his spine fractured and his body riddled with cancer that had gone undiagnosed and untreated for months.
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