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Supplementa Iyes Question No. 12

in Legco on 13.1.88

Mr. LAI: Sir, with reference to the Secretary's answer on

page 2, could the Secretary cite a few examples of the

humanitarian reasons

for not returning

illegal

immigrants and how do these

actions

relate

to and affect the Government's decision on 27 April ly87,

"to tighten the humanitarian grounds under which some illegal

immigrant children had been allowed to stay"?

SECRETARY FOR SECURITY: Sir, for very good reasons, which

I am

sure hon. Members will understand, we do not make

public the humanitarian grounds on which we allow certain

illegal immigrants to stay. The reason, I think, is obvious

enough. As regards the second part of my hon. Friend's

question, we have allowed some of the illegal immigrant mothers

to stay because there were very strong humanitarian grounds

for us to do so.

Mr. SZETO (in Cantonese): Sir, can the Government inform

of

the Council the following: in order to solve the question of

these illegal immigrant mothers and in order to take care of

both the humanitarian reasons and the legal question, will the