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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1990

HAVE KONG.

SHOULD INTO HONG

MR ASPREY SAID HE BELIEVED THE MEASURES HE HAD OUTLINED A SIGNIFICANT EFFECT IN REDUCING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

H

"I

WOULD FINALLY REITERATE THAT THERE WILL BE NO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

AMNESTY FOR

"OUR POLICY REMAINS THAT REPATRIATED," HE SAID.

IMMIGRANTS ILLEGAL

WILL

BE

DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.

AG EXPLAINS PROSECUTIONS POLICY ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE HON JEREMY MATHEWS, TODAY (WEDNESDAY)

WOULD POLICY THAT

BE ADOPTED IN THE EXPLAINED

PROSECUTIONS

BILL IMPLEMENTING MEASURES PROPOSED UNDER THE IMMIGRATION (AMENDMENT)

1990.

THE BILL, IF ENACTED, WOULD THE LAWS CONCERNING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

CONSTITUTE IMPORTANT

CHANGES

TO

THE LEGISLATIVE HE PROPOSED ΤΟ OF EMPLOYMENT, FOR ANOTHER,

SPEAKING AT THE SECOND READING OF THE BILL IN ENACTMENT COUNCIL, MR MATHEWS SAID FROM THE DATE OF PROSECUTE ANY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FOUND AT A PLACE SUCH OFFENCES AS POSSESSION OF ANY IDENTITY CARD RELATING TO AND LANDING OR REMAINING IN HONG KONG WITHOUT DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION.

"SUCH AN OFFENDER WILL

BE PROSECUTED

THE AUTHORITY OF THE

WHETHER OR NOT OTHER EMPLOYMENT, REGARDLESS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT A GROUP," MR MATHEWS

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE FOUND AT THE PLACE OF OF WHETHER THAT PERSON HAS BEEN TO HONG KONG AS AN BEFORE, AND WHETHER OR NOT HE CAME AS PART OF SAID.

OTHER

OFFENCES WOULD BE WAY. OTHER ILLEGAL DESCRIBED, WOULD GENERALLY BE

WHO COMMITTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS PROSECUTED FOR SUCH OTHER OFFENCES IN THE NORMAL IMMIGRANTS, NOT WITHIN THE CATEGORY REPATRIATED TO CHINA WITHOUT PROSECUTION.

THAT THE POLICY ΤΟ HONG KONG

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SAID IT SHOULD BE CLEAR WOULD BE DIRECTED AT THOSE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO CAME FOR ECONOMIC REASONS.

CURRENT

SAID

HR WOULD WHO WERE

AS FAR AS EMPLOYERS WERE CONCERNED, MR MATHEWS

PROVISIONS EMPLOYERS CONTINUE TO PROSECUTE UNDER SHOWN TO HAVE BEEN EMPLOYING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

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