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Oral answer to question
Question No. 12
Repatriation of illegal immifiant this ther
Reply-by
The Hon D G Jeaffresen, CBE, JP Secretary for Security
—to a question from the Hon Richard Lai
in the Legislative Council Meeting-
held on 13 January 1988
12. Mr. LAI : Sir, I am most grateful for your indulgence in
Question
allowing me to ask the following question at such short notice.
Will the Government inform this Council of
the circumstances leading to its decision to
illegal immigrant repatriate to China the group of mothers
who responded to Government's announcement
on 28 April 1987 requesting illegal
immigrant children then in Hong Kong to come
forward for registration?
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Reply
Sir,
The first most significant circumstance
leading to the decision was that, because of
the very large number of people coming into
and we were talking about literally hundreds of thousands Hong Kong illegally, in October 1980 the
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