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MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1988
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NO CHANGE IN POLICY TO "II MOTHERS"
DURING THE PAST TWO YEARS SOME 300
HAVE BEEN REPATRIATED TO CHINA AND IMMIGRANT MOTHERS POLICY TO THE PRESENT GROUP WOULD BE UNFAIR CATEGORY.
SO-CALLED
"ILLEGAL
TO
ANY CHANGE IN OTHERS IN THE SAME
THIS WAS STATED TODAY (MONDAY) BY PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, MR LEE LAP-SUN.
WOMEN, WHO HAD MR LEE SAID HUNDREDS OF
BEEN IN HONG KONG BIRTH TO CHILDREN WHILE ILLEGALLY FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, HAD GIVEN HERE.
REPATRIATED MOTHERS" WERE
AND
IN 1986 ALONE 156 OF THESE "II ANOTHER 144 WERE REPATRIATED LAST YEAR.
THESE WOMEN
"THERE IS A LEGAL ROUTE FOR THEIR HUSBANDS AND CHILDREN IN HONG KONG AND THE ARE USING THIS ROUTE VIRTUALLY REUNITED IN THE TERRITORY," SAID MR LEE.
TO TAKE ΤΟ REJOIN CHINESE AUTHORITIES
ENTIRELY TO ENABLE FAMILIES TO BE
IN EARLY 1987 HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN WERE BY SNAKEHEADS EXPLOITING THE SITUATION.
BROUGHT IN ILLEGALLY
LAST YEAR ON CHILD BUT MERELY ITSELF,
CHILDREN THE
ON APRIL 27 AN AMNESTY BY A MORE LIBERAL POLICY TOWARDS
ANNOUNCEMENT HE SAID THE
IMMIGRATION WAS NOT ILLEGAL SIGNALLED THE END OF SMUGGLED IN FROM CHINA.
THE APRIL ANNOUNCEMENT SAID CHILDREN BORN IN CHINA BUT WHO
REPORT 24 HOURS TO ARRIVED ILLEGALLY WERE GIVEN DEPARTMENT.
THE AFTER VERIFICATION BY
HAD
TO THE IMMIGRATION
CHINESE AUTHORITIES
THE CHILDREN LEGALLY UNDER
WERE ASKED TO RETURN TO CHINA AND TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY A ONE-WAY EXIT PERMIT.
THE WOMEN WHO
SURFACED
GAVE
AFTER APRIL 28 WERE A DIFFERENT CATEGORY: THEY WERK ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO ENTERED HONG KONG AND BIRTH WHILE HERE, MR LEE SAID.
MR LEE.
"THEY WERE NOT THE TARGETS OF OUR APRIL 27 ANNOUNCEMENT,
SAID
ADULT WOMEN HAS CONTAIN STRONG
CATEGORY OF THE GOVERNMENT POLICY FOR THIS
BREN
UNLESS CIRCUMSTANCES REPATRIATION, HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS FOR THEM TO BE ALLOWED TO STAY.
ALWAYS
HONG
LEGAL CHANNELS EXIST, "QUEUE-JUMPING CANNOT BE CONDONED WHEN
KONG ESPECIALLY IN VIEW OF THE LARGE NUMBER OF WIVES MARRIED TO
HE ADDED. RESIDENTS WHO WISH TO COME HERE,
/MR LEE