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One of the 492 Tamil migrants who arrived in B.C. last month has given birth to a girl. A Citizenship and Immigration official confirmed that the baby--because she was born in Canada -- is automatically a Canadian citizen. The woman was transferred from the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge, B.C., to a local hospital on Thursday night, said Malini Dyonisius, one of the lawyers representing the migrants. The woman had been scheduled to have a 30-day detention review hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board in downtown Vancouver yesterday. The woman's husband is being held at the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre, also in Maple Ridge. It could not be immediately confirmed late yesterday whether he had been allowed to see his wife and newborn child.
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