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I am afraid,

So we must also maintain our closed centres as a

deterrent. But I can assure my hon. Friend Dr. LAM that as

soon as we can implement our policy on repatriating new

arrivals, we will be putting forward proposals designed

towards opening up the closed centres.

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Illegal Immigration

sar,

I referred earlier to the comparison my hon. Friend

Mr. Peter C WONG made between the way we have to accept

Vietnamese refugees and our repatriation of illegal immigrants

that is the repatriation of illegal immigrants from China from China. The latter policy/will continue and I would like

to warn potential illegal immigrants not to try to get into

Hong Kong. It is definitely not worth the effort.

anti-illegal immigration measures are very effective.

are sund with continue to

illegal immigrants wil be

wily

Our

Most

be arrested on the border. Up to the

on the border

end of last month we had caught 18,564 The few that manage

to slip through will be arrested in Hong Kong. Over the same

this year, period we found 3,432 such evaders, as we call them. As they

not got Hong Kong

do not have identity cards we are sure we get all these

evaders in the end. And as they do not have identity cards

they are not allowed to work while they are in Hong Kong. All

illegal immigrants are, and will continue to be, returned to

China.

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