TNAG-2281-FCO40-3281-Illegal-immigration-into-Hong-Kong-from-China-and-Taiwan-1991 — Page 20

CONFIDENTIAL

From..

Ref.(71)

Director of Immigration

..in..

ICC/CON/3/6

Tel. No.

6718156

12 September 1991

Date.

MEMO

To

Distribution Below

HKB

нив 341/2.

pa

38

Your Ref.

in.

dated

Illegal Immigrants from China Repatriation from Hong Kong

Further to my memo in this series dated 14-08-91 the figure as at 31-08-91 are as follows:-

Between 30-11-74

and 31-12-89

1990 Yearly Total

1991

1991 Jan-Jul Aug Yearly Total

No. of illegal

referred for

272881

9897

9115

1839

10954

repatriated

No. repatriated

280982

9888

9015

1836

10851

No. released

569

40

16

2

18

Abscond

Deceased

8

Awaiting repatriation as at 31-08-91

161

О

* Excluding 'shoppers'

'surrendered for repatriation (SUL)'1016

excess crew members'

'evaders (VIC)'

'smugglers'

'other means'

8012

116 5

2.

(who were also repatriated)

A breakdown on the arrested illegal immigrants from China between

December 1974 and August 1991 is at Appendix A.

3.

At Appendix B are tables showing figures of legal and illegal entrants from China from 1972 to 31-08-91 together with an estimate of total new entrants from 1975 to date.

Distribution

JSIS HK HQBF

CP (Attn: DVC Border) CAPIC HK

HQBF HK (Attn: J3 OPS)

D

WONG Po-kee

for Director of Immigration

Directly

HQ48 Gurkha Infantry Brigade (Attn: COS) FCO (Commissioner Hong Kong Government Office) Regional Command Control/NT (Attn: SSO/OPS/NT) CIO (OR) CIO (MKT)

G.F. 73 C

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