WOOMS. BUT IT IS OUR PRACTICE TO BLEVSE LATRY TO PLABONS ARRIVING WITHOUT PERMISSION AND TO INSIST THAT THEY SUBMIT APPLICATIONS FROM THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.
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6.1 PROPOSE THAT WE SHOULD FOLLOW THE LOGIC OF THIS PRACTICE I HERE. IF THE GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH VIETNAM WOULD ACREE TO AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL GR GOME OTHER INTERNATIONAL DODY.TERVIEWING MEMBERS THE GROUP ON THEIR RETURN TO SAIGON, WE WOULD CERTAINLY CONSIDER SUBSEQUENTI. Y EACH CASE INDIVIDUALLY ON HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS, OTHERWISE, WE COULD BE ACCUSED OF CONDONING A CRIMINAL OFFENCE IN A NEIGHBOURING FOREIGN COUNTRY AND COMPOUNDING IT BY BREACHING OUR OWN POLICY RULES.
7. WE HAVE ALREADY REFERRED IN PARA 3 OF OUR TEL NO 647 TO THE 'OBJECTIONS TO ENTRY OF THE GROUP TO MACAU OR TAIWAN, EVEN LEİ THEY
IF WERE ACCEPTABLE THERE. IT MUST BE EMPHASIZED THAT THEIR COAL WAS HONG KONG AND IT WOULD NOT MAKE SENSE FOR ANY OF THIS GROUP OF CHINESE TO WANT TO GO TO, SAY, AUSTRALIA OR SWEDEN. EVEN IF THEY DID, IT WOULD TAKE MONTHS BEFORE SUITABLE ARRANGEMENTS COULD BE MADE, DURING WHICH TIME WE WOULD BE OBLIGED TO KEEP THEM IN GAOL. (THERE ARE ELDERLY PEOPLE AND YOUNG CHILDREN IN THE GROUP). IF WE RELEASED THEM, THEY WOULD GO TO GROUND IN HONG KONG, WHICH IS PRECISELY WHAT HAPPENED IN THE CASE OF LEUNG PAK KIN.
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8. WHILE WE RESPECT THE NEED TO ACT IN A HUMANITARIAN WAY,,OUR 0,
PRIMARY CONSIDERATIONS MUST BE THE MAINTENANCE OF CREDIBLE AND EFFECTIVE IMMIGRATION CONTROL, AND THE AVOIDANCE OF A PRECEDENT WHICH WOULD ENCOURAGE FURTHER ATTEMPTS BY LARGE NUMBERS OF ILLEGALS TO SEEK REFUGE IN HONG KONG. SUBJECT THEREFORE, TO SATISFACTORY ASSURANCES FROM SAIGON WE INTEND TO REPATRIATE AS SOON AS SUITABLE ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MADE. THIS WILL HAVE TO BE BY CHARTERED AIRCRAFT AT OUR EXPENSE. THE LONGER WE DELAY, THE KORE DIFFICULT THE SITUATION BECOMES.
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