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Oral answer to question

Question No. 12

Repatriation of illegal immifiant this ther

Reply-by

The Hon D G Jeaffresen, CBE, JP Secretary for Security

—to a question from the Hon Richard Lai

in the Legislative Council Meeting-

held on 13 January 1988

12. Mr. LAI : Sir, I am most grateful for your indulgence in

Question

allowing me to ask the following question at such short notice.

Will the Government inform this Council of

the circumstances leading to its decision to

illegal immigrant repatriate to China the group of mothers

who responded to Government's announcement

on 28 April 1987 requesting illegal

immigrant children then in Hong Kong to come

forward for registration?

le

Reply

Sir,

The first most significant circumstance

leading to the decision was that, because of

the very large number of people coming into

and we were talking about literally hundreds of thousands Hong Kong illegally, in October 1980 the

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