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Kong meets 75% of the costs of the

new

effect from

Garrison which

represents approximately HK$1500 million each year. A

Defence Costs Agreement will be required to take

April 1988 and preparation for the

negotiations, which will take place during 1987 is now

underway.

Illegal Immigration

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*

The number of illegal immigrants attempting to

continued to increase during 1986.

enter Hong Kong

Arrests during the year averaged 1,403 [(to

to be confirmed)

[(to

onfirmed)

The

per month compared with 1,051 per month in 1985.

arrest number of illegal immigrants evading immediate capture but

apprehended later within Hong Kong remained steady, at an

average of 270 (to be confirmed

per month. While these

statistics suggest that security along the land border and

in coastal waters is proving generally effective, a cause

of particular concern in the latter part of 1986

1986 was a

resurgence in the trafficking of child illegal immigrants

to join parents already in Hong Kong. The number of

tion illegal immigrant children reported to the Immigrat

Department

for

regularisation

2.0

H-K-

h

of stay jumped from an

average of twenty per month, before August 1986, to over

200 in November.

The methods used

used to smuggle

smuggle children