is to return to their own country, once satisfactory arrangements for this have been made in consultation with Vietnamese
authorities.
Last
Illegal immigrants from China are returned immediately. year some 21,000 were sent back with the co-operation of the Chinese. After 1997, Chinese from other parts of China who try to enter the Hong Kong SAR will continue to be sent back.
Problem of large numbers of economic migrants trying to claim refugee status not limited to Hong Kong. On 20 February 1989, the
US announced tough new measures over Central American asylum seekers, confining them to camps and repatriating them quickly if their request for asylum is turned down.
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