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From:
Director of Immigration
To: Secretary for Security
Ref:
(4) in IMM CR 4/191III
Tel. No.:
5-458031 Ext 18
Date:
22 May 1980
Your Ref: CR 12/2091/79
dated
Illegal Immigrants from China
Repatriation
from Hong Kong
Further to my memo in this series dated 26 April 1980 the
figures as at 30 April 1980 are:
Between 30-11-74 and 31-12-78
Jan. Apr.
1979
1980
No. of illegals referred
12,233
89,940
18,731
for repatriation
No. repatriated
12,068
89,555
18,925
No. released
Absconded
116
51
9
2
2
Deceased
2
Awaiting decision
5 I
169
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2.
The figure of illegal immigrants from China claiming to have evaded the patrols since repatriation started on 30 November 1974 is now 146,866. Various evasion ratios. covering different periods since the start of repatriations appear at Appendix A. The Census & Statistics Department estimate of the evasion ratio (including Macao elements) for April 1980 is 1: 1.1 compared with 1: 1.1 (revised) for March 1980.
3.
At Appendix B are tables showing figures of legal and illegal entrants from China from 1972 to date together with an estimate from the Census & Statistics Department of total new entrants from 1975 to date.
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