Today (Friday, April 16), in Arcadia, Los Angeles, “Hong Kong Hammer”, a young man who fled into the United States in January, met with many of the people who helped him stay in the country.
Although he is still unable to reveal his real name and photo, he shouted “I’m back” to express his joy at being free.
On April 14, the 19-year-old Hong Kong man, who calls himself “Hong Kong Hammer”, was granted asylum in the U.S. by an immigration court in San Diego, California, and became a legal resident. This comes just over three months after he fled from the Mexican border into the U.S. in January and just two months after he entered the formal asylum application process.
In March 2019, when Hong Kong began its anti-China campaign, Hong Kong Hammer was less than 18 years old, in his senior year of high school and about to graduate; he had already finished his Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education DSE when that march of more than a million people broke out in Hong Kong on June 9.
Hong Kong Hammer joined the anti-China movement and also participated in the million-man march, becoming a “thug” against the police.
Hong Kong Hammer told Voice of America that he could not use his real name or reveal his real face, “or else his mom, dad and friends in Hong Kong would be in big trouble.”
In early February, he was interviewed by Voice of America by phone. However, he was subsequently arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border and subsequently sent to immigration prison when he returned to Mexico in an attempt to re-enter the United States in order to help another young man from Hong Kong enter the country.
Two months later, his application for political asylum was approved. He successfully knocked on the door to freedom.
Lawyer Sun, who represented the asylum case, told Voice of America, “Although this is the first asylum case I have handled for a Hong Kong person, the outcome was expected, after all, it was conducted according to an open and transparent judicial process, and everything was predictable.”
Sun said that if Hong Kong people want to apply to the U.S. government for political asylum, the U.S. government should be able to make the right judgment based on everything that has happened in Hong Kong and the dramatic changes in its situation; and there are various ways to submit an application.
“Hong Kong Hammer” said his next goal is to realize his ideal of cloaking himself in the United States as soon as possible.
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