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THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1988

GOVT DETERMINED TO STEM 11 INFLUX: GOVERNOR

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THE GOVERNMENT WILL IMMIGRANTS AND

DO ITS UTMOST

CONTINUE WILL

ILLEGAL SEEK OUT, AND TAKE STRINGENT MEASURES POR SUCH ARRIVALS,

ΤΟ STEM THE INFLUX OF ΤΟ ITS DETERMINED EFFORTS AGAINST, PERSONS WHO ARRANGE

THIS WAS THE CLEAR MESSAGE THAT THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON,

HE VISITED MARINE POLICE GAVE TODAY (THURSDAY) WHEN

AND MILITARY

THE

AREA го FRONTIER

SEE FOR PERSONNEL IN

HIMSELF HOW ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE STOPPED AT THE LAND AND SEA BORDER.

BASE, SIR AT SANDY SPUR COMPANY

DAVID WAS BRIEFED BY THE DEPUTY COMMANDER OF THE 18 GURKHA INFANTRY BRIGADE, COLONEL MARK COOK,

CARRIED OUT BY THE BRITISH ON ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OPERATIONS FORCES AT THE LAND BORDER.

AT PAK HOK CHAU WHERE

SIR DAVID THEN VISITED A PLATOON BASE HE WAS GIVEN DEMONSTRATIONS ON VARIOUS TYPES OF SOPHISTICATED EQUIPMENT USED FOR ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OPERATION.

SIR

DAVID WAS BRIEFED BY IN DEEP BAY,

MR JOHN MACDONALD, THE OPERATION OF MARINE POLICE REGIONAL COMMANDER, MARINE, ON

IN MOST ADVANCED MODELS OF INTERCEPTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, USING THE WATER-JET BOATS AND RIGID-HULL INFLATABLE CRAFT.

AFTER TRAVELLING IN BOTH TYPES OF VESSELS, SIR WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE EFFECTIVENESS OF POLICE OFFICERS THE FOREFRONT IN TACKLING THIS SERIOUS PROBLEM.

"THE VAST MAJORITY OF

ILLEGAL

ACROSS THE BORDER ARE CAUGHT ON THE SPOT,

...

FURTHERMORE, WE ARE DETERMINED

DAVID SAID HE WHO WERE AT

"

WHO IMMIGRANTS

HE SAID.

ΤΟ TRY

SNEAK

TO

ELIMINATE ANY

MOVE TO BRING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS INTO THE TERRITORY AND THOSE RESPONSIBLE,

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SYNDICATED TO PROSECUTE

SIR DAVID REITERATED THAT THERE WAS NO QUESTION OF ANY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

AMNESTY

AND ANYONE POUND "ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL BE REPATRIATED

HE ADDED. REMAINING IN HONG KONG ILLEGALLY MAY ALSO FACE PROSECUTION,

SO FAR THIS YEAR, UP IN THE BORDER AREA.

5,954 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

+

HAVE BEEN ROUNDED

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