CONFIDENTIAL
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PS/Mr Blaker
HONG KONG: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Problem
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RECEIVED 'N REGISTRY NO. 51
1 2 FEB 1981
DESK OFFICER
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PA
REGATAY Action Taken
for 2017
1. To reply to a letter from Mr Peter Bottomley MP (Conservative
Greenwich, Woolwich West) to Mr Blaker asking for comments on a news
release and a copy of a letter to the Prime Minister on illegal
immigration to Hong Kong.
Bu noted
for
Mr. Seule.
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Recommendation
2. I recommend that Mr Blaker reply to Mr Bottomley on the lines of
the attached draft.
Background
3.
The content of the draft reply is self-explanatory.
4. The Wanderers' Association was set up in June 1980 to assist
'refugees from China'. It is known to have links with the Kuomintang
in Taiwan (this cannot be declared publicly).
The three signatories
of the news release visited London in January in order to contact
Amnesty International and UNHCR, to lobby Parliament and to obtain
visas for the United States. They were unsuccessful in obtaining
visas, and their visit caused little stir.
5.
the illegal immigrant whose case has been publicised
by the Wanderers, entered Hong Kong in December 1980 and was detained,
after applying unsuccessfully for political asylum at the US Consulate-
General. His appeal for asylum in Hong Kong was turned down, after
careful consideration, and he was repatriated on 20 December. His
case has attracted little sympathy in Hong Kong.
6. The original of the Wanderers' letter to the Prime Minister has
now been received by this Department.
5 February 1981
Bein
R D Clift
Hong Kong & General Department
CONFIDENTIAL