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Kong meets 75% of the costs of the
new
effect from
Garrison which
represents approximately HK$1500 million each year. A
Defence Costs Agreement will be required to take
April 1988 and preparation for the
negotiations, which will take place during 1987 is now
underway.
Illegal Immigration
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The number of illegal immigrants attempting to
continued to increase during 1986.
enter Hong Kong
Arrests during the year averaged 1,403 [(to
to be confirmed)
[(to
onfirmed)
The
per month compared with 1,051 per month in 1985.
arrest number of illegal immigrants evading immediate capture but
apprehended later within Hong Kong remained steady, at an
average of 270 (to be confirmed
per month. While these
statistics suggest that security along the land border and
in coastal waters is proving generally effective, a cause
of particular concern in the latter part of 1986
1986 was a
resurgence in the trafficking of child illegal immigrants
to join parents already in Hong Kong. The number of
tion illegal immigrant children reported to the Immigrat
Department
for
regularisation
2.0
H-K-
h
of stay jumped from an
average of twenty per month, before August 1986, to over
200 in November.
The methods used
used to smuggle
smuggle children