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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