{"id":136388,"date":"2017-12-05T01:47:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=136388"},"modified":"2017-12-05T01:47:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:47:51","slug":"couple-to-be-sentenced-for-harbouring-5-immigrants-who-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/05\/couple-to-be-sentenced-for-harbouring-5-immigrants-who-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple to be sentenced for harbouring 5 immigrants who died"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_136391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136391\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/640px-Aerial_View_of_Downtown_Detroit_and_Rennaissance_Center.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136391\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/640px-Aerial_View_of_Downtown_Detroit_and_Rennaissance_Center.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of Downtown Detroit with the Riverfront (Photo By Robert Thompson - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/640px-Aerial_View_of_Downtown_Detroit_and_Rennaissance_Center.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/640px-Aerial_View_of_Downtown_Detroit_and_Rennaissance_Center-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of Downtown Detroit with the Riverfront (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=39260774\">Photo By Robert Thompson &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DETROIT &#8212; Prosecutors say the former owners of a Detroit-area restaurant deserve seven years in prison for the deaths of five immigrants who didn&#8217;t escape a house fire.<\/p>\n<p>A teenager and four men from Mexico were in the U.S. illegally, working at a restaurant owned by Roger Tam and wife Ada Mei Lei. The immigrants died in 2016 while living in the basement of a home also owned by the couple.<\/p>\n<p>Tam and Lei will be sentenced Tuesday for harbouring immigrants. They could face years in prison if a federal judge believes they recklessly created a high risk of death.<\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyers say the government is overreaching. They say the basement wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;death chamber&#8221; but was finished with two bedrooms, a kitchen and living area. The house recently sold for $300,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT &#8212; Prosecutors say the former owners of a Detroit-area restaurant deserve seven years in prison for the deaths of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":136391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[37072,37073,23569,6927,6530,379,37071,4742],"class_list":["post-136388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-ada-mei-lei","tag-basement","tag-detroit","tag-house-fire","tag-immigrants","tag-mexico","tag-roger-tam","tag-u-s","mauthors-ed-white","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}