XN000022-1983-07-23 — Page 3

SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1983

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TROPICAL CYCLONE, THUNDERSTORM AND HEAVY RAIN WARNING

DRAGNET FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TIGHTENS

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THE DRAGNET FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HIDING IN HONG KONG PULLED TIGHTER THIS WEEK AS 25 SUSPECTS WERE ROUNDED UP IN A THREE-DAY. OPERATION.

THE OPERATION, CARRIED OUT JOINTLY BY THE POLICE AND THE LABOUR AND IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENTS, WAS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S ONGOING TERRITORY-WIDE EFFORT TO STAMP OUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

THE 25 PERSONS SUSPECTED OF BEING HERE ILLEGALLY HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION. THOSE FOUND TO BE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL BE REPATRIATED.

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY THAT THERE WAS NO QUESTION OF ANY SLACKENING OF EFFORTS AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

+THE SECURITY FORCES AND THE POLICE WILL CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN A HIGH STATE OF VIGILANCE BOTH AT THE BORDER AND THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.

+THERE IS NO PLACE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN HONG KONG. SOONER OR LATER, THEY WILL BE DETECTED AND SENT BACK, HE SAID.

THE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT THAT RUMOURS THAT THERE WOULD BE AN AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT STARTED ISSUING NEW IDENTITY CARDS HAD ALREADY BEEN PROVED FALSE,

+AS HAVE BEEN SHOWN TIME AND AGAIN, ALL SUCH RUMOURS ARE DELIBERATELY SPREAD BY SNAKEHEADS WHOSE SOLE AIM IS TO MAKE A FAST DOLLAR. ANYONE FOOLISH ENOUGH TO BELIEVE IN THEM IS ONLY CHEATING HIMSELF, HE SAID.

+ THE NEW IDENTITY CARDS WILL MAKE LIFE EVEN MORE DIFFICULT FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AS THEY ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO FORGE,+ HE ADDED.

/DURING THE