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13.

Since November 1975, the total of illegal immigrants interviewed and accepted as having entered from Macao is 1,841. Of these 239 were arrested, 1,312 surfaced through ROP claiming illegal entry from Macao and 290 surfaced through ROP falsely claiming illegal entry from elsewhere,

Registration of illegals

14.

During March 854 persons (compared with 578 last month) registered with the Registration of Persons Office, claiming to have entered Hong Kong illegally from various sources, The figure includes 754 persons (compared with 506 last month) claiming to have come from China and 45 (compared with 26 last month) from Macao.

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Since 1962, the Registration of Persons Office has registered a total of 323,567 persons who claimed to have entered Hong Kong illegally from various sources, primarily China. The total since January 1970 is 109,812 of whom 92, 102* claimed to have come from China and 5,929 from Macao. The true figure of illegal immigrants from China is somewhat lower and the true figure of Macao somewhat higher, because of attempte to conceal the true place of origin on registration to avoid repatriation. Separate statistics of confirmed place of origin are shown in para 10 for China, and para 13 for Macao.

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The attached appendices BH give details of arrests of illegal immigrants from China and Macao during March.

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Carter

A J Carter

for Director of Immigration

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Distribution list

Report and appendix A

S for H

SNT

PA

CP(DSB)

CP (Operations)

SLO

HSI (2)

C for C & 3.

PS, Government House

GIS

Report and appendices A-B

S for S

APA (4) (Attn: Secy to APA) D of H

Report and all appendices

DPC/M

ICAC (Attn: Ops Dept)

*(Correction: the

corresponding figures for January and February should read 90,832 and 91,338).

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PIO(1)

PIO(C

AP10(1

CIO(GI)

CIO(OR)

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