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FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1988

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POLICE TO TAKE TOUGHER ACTION AGAINST II'S

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AGAINST ILLEGAL

IMMIGRANTS WORKING IN THE TERRITORY OR COMING IN BY SEA IN SELF-ORGANISED GROUPS.

POLICE WILL TAKE

ACTION TOUGHER

GIVING THE WARNING TODAY (FRIDAY), A

IN

TAKING OUT

TRADES, ALL

APART

AUTHORITY WOULD CONSIDER IMMIGRANTS EMPLOYED CONSTRUCTION SITES.

POLICE SPOKESMAN SAID THE PROSECUTION AGAINST ILLEGAL

FROM THOSE

HIRED

AT

ARRESTED IN IT IS EXPECTED THAT A GROUP OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

MAY SHUI ON

23 WILL ВВ CHARGED WITH A TIMBER FACTORY IN SHEUNG ILLEGALLY REMAINING IN THE TERRITORY UNDER THE IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE.

THE

A

OF MAXIMUM PENALTY OFFENCE CARRIES IMPRISONMENT AND A FINE OF $5,000, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

THREE YEARS

..

ILLEGALLY EVEN WITHOUT THE SELF-ORGANISED GROUPS WHO COME IN

TO LAND" HE HELP OF 'SNAKEHEADS" WOULD BE CHARGED WITH "CONSPIRACY ADDED.

.

TO

AT

THE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT THAT THE EXTENSION OF PROSECUTION

SITES FOLLOWED COVER GROUPS OTHER THAN THOSE WORKING AT CONSTRUCTION THE SUCCESSFUL LEGAL ACTION AGAINST 67 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS EMPLOYED CONSTRUCTION SITES.

HE SAID ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN HIDING SEEMED TO BE PINCH OF THE NEW MEASURE.

SINCE THE COURT CONVICTION ON MAY 13, IMMIGRANTS HAVE GIVEN THEMSELVES UP TO THE CAN BE REPATRIATED.

FEELING THE

A TOTAL OF 78 ILLEGAL POLICE HOPING THAT THEY

THEN WAS NEGLIGIBLE,

"THE NUMBER OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

SURRENDERING то US BEFORE

DEVELOPMENT,

POLICE INTERCEPTED IN ANOTHER IMMIGRANT WHO PAID FOR A BOAT TO TAKE HIM BACK TO CHINA EVADE PROSECUTION.

AN ILLEGAL IN ORDER TO

SPOKESMAN

FOR

THE

ON ACTION AGAINST AIDERS AND EMPLOYERS OF II'S, THE SAID TWO MEN HAD BEEN BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURT FOR ARRANGING PASSAGE OF FIVE II'S TO COME IN AND WORK AT A CONSTRUCTION SITE.

FOUND WORKING IN THE SHEUNG FURTHERMORE, SOME OF THE II'S

INFORMATION то THE POLICE SHUI TIMBER FACTORY HAVE PROVIDED USEFUL WHICH MAY RESULT IN POSSIBLE CHARGES AGAINST THE AIDER.

HIDING

IN THE TERRITORY AND

THEM EMPLOYMENT CAN

PERSONS EXPECT

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HE SAID.

"ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRANGING FOR THEIR ARRIVAL OR OFFERING MUCII TOUGHER ACTION BY THE POLICE IN THE TIME AHEAD,

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