Yang Xiuzhu, a woman at the top of the Chinese government’s most wanted escaped corrupt fugitives list, will give up her request for asylum in the United States and will be sent back to Mainland China. World Journal, a New York-based Chinese-language newspaper, reported that transferred to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Houston, Texas.

Yang has stated that she plans to return to China to “seek better medical conditions” for her deteriorating health. She has also said that she will tell the truth to the Chinese side and explain her case. Yang’s lawyer Vlad Kuzmin said that if all goes smoothly, Yang could be sent back to Mainland China as early as August.

“She keeps calling me three or four times a day on the phone, asking me when she can be back,” Kuzmin told World Journal. Kuzmin told the newspaper that Yang was feeling homesick, and that she has strong feelings about returning tin China. At 70 years old, Yang feels that the U.S. prison custody system has not been able to attend to her medical needs. Her case has dragged on for ten years in the states and her health has deteriorated. Yang has also been separated from her family in China for ten years, and wishes to return to her roots.

Yang had been detained by ICE in New Jersey’s Hudson County Correctional Facility after entering the United States on a counterfeit passport. Her lawyer tried to fight for better medical care and even medical parole but failed. Yang tried to work with a social work organization to sue the prison in early July, but she was suddenly transferred to an immigration detention center in Houston. “They said that there would be better conditions there, but it was not the case. When her shoes broke, they would not give her a new pair.”

Yang’s decision for her asylum case has been postponed a number of times. In eight months, the bureau was unable to make a decision on her case. Yang finally decided to abandon her request for asylum and apply to return to China.

Source: thepaper.cn

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