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THIS OBJECTIVE
NOT
WOULD BE FRUSTRATED IF PERSONS WHO HAVE A CLAIM TO REFUGEE STATUS, OR WHO HAVE BEEN FOUND NOT TO BE REFUGEES, WERE TO BE RELEASED TO LIVE AND WORK IN THE COMMUNITY.
ESTABLISHED
"
WE WOULD IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE LOST CONTROL DE PACTO OVER IMMIGRATION INTO HONG KONG FROM VIETNAM," HE SAID.
MR ASPREY POINTED OUT THAT THE FIRST REQUIREMENT OF IMMIGRATION
OVER CONTROL
UNDOCUMENTED ARRIVALS FROM VIETNAM
ΤΟ WAS
DETERMINE STATUS, AND HENCE ELIGIBILITY FOR RESETTLEMENT OR NOT.
"IT IS OUR WISH TO COMPLETE SCREENING AS SOON AS PRACTICAI B AFTER ARRIVAL.
"WE DEVOTE VERY CONSIDERABLE RESOURCES TO THIS: OVER 300 STAFF ARE EMPLOYED FULL TIME ON THIS WORK, AND THE TOTAL ANNUAL COST IS SOME $64 MILLION.
WISH
"BUT OUR RESOURCES ARE NOT WITHOUT LIMIT; THE WORKLOAD IS VERY LARGE, WITH OVER 53,000 ASYLUM SEEKERS HAVING ARRIVED FROM VIETNAM SINCE STATUS DETERMINATION WAS INTRODUCED IN JUNE 1988; AND THE FOR SPEED MUST BE BALANCED AGAINST THE NEED FOR A FAIR AND THOROUGH CONSIDERATION OF EACH CASE AND EACH CLAIM," HE SAID.
AWAITING
MR ASPREY SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAD SO FAR COMPLETED SCREKNING OF ABOUT 21,000 PERSONS, AND THERE WERE SOME 29,000 PERSONS SCREENING AND THE AVERAGE WAITING TIME AT PRESENT WAS TWO YEARS FROM DATE OF ARRIVAL.
"IT IS, HOWEVER, OUR WISH TO REDUCE THIS TIME, IF POSSIBLE TO A MAXIMUM OF 18 MONTHS. WE ARE NOW ASSESSING THE RESOURCE IMPLICAT LONG OF ACHIEVING THIS IMPROVEMENT, WHICH WILL OF COURSE ALSO BE DEPENDENT UPON THE NUMBERS ARRIVING FROM VIETNAM IN, FUTURE," HE SAID.
FOR THOSE
ASPREY WHO WERE FOUND NOT TO BE REFUGEES, MR THERE WAS NO ALTERNATIVE BUT RETURN TO VIETNAM.
OF
SAID
RETURN
BETWEEN HONG FOR SPECIAL DETENTION OF
"IT IS FRUSTRATING THAT THE NORMAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PERSONS TO THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN DO NOT YET APPLY
IF THEY DID, THERE WOULD DE HO NEED
NO PROVISIONS IN THE IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE FORMER RESIDENTS OF VIETNAM PENDING REMOVAL, HE EXPLAINED.
KONG
· ·
THERE OUT THAT
HOR
HOWEVER, HE POINTED
WERE ARRANGEMENTS PERSONS TO RETURN VOLUNTARILY TO VIETNAM, AND IT WAS GOVERNMENT'S WISH PERSONS AND THAT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE THAT SUCH SHOULD FACE THE REALITY OF THEIR SITUATION AND AGREED TO RETURN VIETNAM, RATHER THAN WASTING THEIR LIVES IN DETENTION IN HONG KONG,
TO
CENTRES, AS REGARDS THE TRANSFER OF PERSONS BETWEEN DETENTION MR ASPREY SAID IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT, FOR THE GOOD ORDER OF ALL IN THE DETENTION CENTRES, THERE SHOULD BE NO DOUBT AS TO GOVERNMENT'S POWER IN THIS REGARD.
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IN IS REGRETTABLY AN INEVITABLE PART OF HUMAN NATURE THAT THE DETENTION CENTRES THERE WILL BE FRICTIONS, DISPUTES, ATTEMPTS BY SET THE STRONG TO PREY ON THE WEAK, AND A MINORITY OF PERSONS WHO ARE ON BEING DISRUPTIVE.
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