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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1988

OTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MOTHERS WERE FOUND

DURING THE COURSE

OF INVESTIGATION INTO THE BACKGROUND OF THE CHILDREN

REGISTRATION.

"VERY MUCH

MOTHERS, AGAINST

BROUGHT

IN FOR

SYMPATHISE

ΤΟ HONG

THESE WITH Ι HAVE DESCRIBED KONG,

ILLEGAL

THEY IN

IMMIGRANT

MUST

BE

SIMILAR

AS WE THE BACKGROUND

LIKE MANY AND RETURN REPATRIATED CIRCUMSTANCES, LEGALLY UNDER THE-ONE WAY PERMIT SCHEME.

OR ΤΟ OUT

"BUT WE DECIDED, ON HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS, NOT TO DETAIN REPATRIATE THEM UNTIL THEIR CHILDREN, SOME OF WHOM HAVE BEEN BORN OF WEDLOCK, WERE ALL GIVEN THE RIGHT TO STAY IN HONG KONG.

ON RECOGNIZANCE AND ASKED TO "THE II MOTHERS WERE RELEASED

HE SAID. REPORT REGULARLY TO THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT,

LESS MR JEAFFRESON SAID THAT IN ORDER TO MAKE THE REPATRIATION

CHINA WITH THEIR CHILDREN, PAINFUL, THE II MOTHERS MIGHT RETURN TO WHO COULD RETURN TO HONG KONG AT ANY TIME, IF THEY SO WISHED.

AND

OF COURSE

RETURN ΤΟ CHINA, THE TO HONG KONG WITH THEIR

"AS FOR THE II MOTHERS THE SOONER THEY SOONER THEY CAN APPLY FOR ONE-WAY EXIT PERMITS TO COME LEGALLY TO CHILDREN ALREADY HERE, HE SAID.

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UNITE

WITH

+

THEIR

FAMILIES

THEY WILL EXPERIENCE ANY WE HAVE NO REASON TO SUPPOSE THAT

HE ADDED. PARTICULAR DIFFICULTY IN OBTAINING ONE-WAY EXIT PERMITS,

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ON THE LENGTH JEAFFRESON SAID TO HONG KONG ON ONE YEAR, OTHERS IN TWO

REPLYING TO THE HON HILTON CHEONG-LEEN'S QUERY OF TIME REQUIRED TO OBTAIN A ONE-WAY EXIT PERMIT, MR THAT ACCORDING TO INFORMATION FROM PEOPLE WHO CAME THESE PERMITS, SOME GOT THEM IN LESS THAN YEARS, AND MOST OF THEM WITHIN THREE.

THAT HONG KONG WAS YEAR, STILL IN CHINA

HE SAID THIS WAS NOT UNREASONABLE, GIVEN ALLOWING IN AS MANY AS 27,000 LEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM CHINA EVERY

OF PEOPLE NUMBER AND GIVEN THAT THERE WAS A LARGE WAITING TO JOIN THEIR RELATIVES IN HONG KONG.

FACT

MR THEY

THE GOVERNMENT MAKE ON THE HON DESMOND LEE'S SUGGESTION THAT CONTACT WITH CHINA FOR SPECIAL CONSIDERATION FOR THESE II MOTHERS, JEAFFRESON SAID THESE PEOPLE WERE IN OUGHT TO BE WAITING IN THE QUEUE IN CHINA PERMITS.

WHILE QUEUE-JUMPING IN ORDER то GET ONE-WAY

WHY THE GOVERNMENT

STAY IN HONG ONE-OFF BASIS,

IN REPLY TO THE HON MARTIN LEE'S QUESTION COULD NOT GRANT SPECIAL PERMISSION TO THESE MOTHERS TO KONG PURELY ON HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS AND STRICTLY ON A MR JEAFFRESON SAID THERE WAS NO VIABLE REASON TO TREAT THEM ANY BETTER THAN ANY OTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MOTHERS WHOM THE GOVERNMENT HAD BACK TO CHINA.

MOTHERS

OF THOSE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT HE ADDED THAT SOME SURFACED AS A RESULT OF THE APRIL 27 EXERCISE HAD ALREADY RETURNED CHINA VOLUNTARILY.

SENT

WHO

TO

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