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SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
AUGUST 6 1924
Hàng Rau
Letters to the Editor
IMMIGRATION BILL
A BITTER PILL
Sir, It is no wonder that people in Britain are worried about the implications of the Immigration Bill, 1971. We who live in Hongkong have even greater cause for con-
cern.
If this Bill goes through, it will mean that Britons will be foreigners in our own Crown Colony. For those of us hold- ing British passports, describ- ing us as citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies, this is nonsense. Is this a British Crown Colony or not?
If Government sent out a questionnaire asking its expatriate staff if they would like to leave Hongkong at once, provided they did not lose pensions or bonuses, the replies might well come as a shock.
Many of us are thoroughly fed up with this combination garbage pile/spittoon and we would leave in droves if we could do so without financial loss. That would take care of some of the 18,000 of us.
If the Bill is enacted, it will be a particularly bitter pill to swallow in the light of the hundreds of illegal immigrants being allowed to stay in Hongkong. Soon it may be that if one holds a British passport and is a U.K. citizen,
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then one can't come freely into Hongkong but anyone who is able to swim across a bay without being shot or eaten by sharks can.
No matter that the swimmer might be a "plant" or have a politically dubious background. As long as Government can quickly and painlessly (for them) deport British students or teachers, who ask too many awkward questions, they (Govt) won't care.
Why not deport the Chinese refugees to Taiwan?
Since the administration here pays not the slightest attention to what people in Hongkong think (particularly if they form part of the powerless minori- ty), I have written about this (along with a number of my friends) to British M.P.s, with a copy to our “Ombudsman” in London, Anthony Royle, as well as to several English
newspapers.
Anyone having a grievance against the Hongkong Govt, (and that must cover quite a wide circle!) should get up similar petitions. Let the people in England know just what lunatic policies are being implemented in this supposedly British Colony.
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Your newspaper has in the last week carried reports on mini-bus protection starting again. No doubt some more inspectors will acquire new cars, furniture and jewellery.
In a few days after the usual tiresome formality of bringing the matter to Council, the Immigration Bill will be passed and I prophesy only a short wait until some new excess of bureaucratic injustice is produced with the expected denials and after a brief storm the return to the status quo.
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