Ask for detailed information and views on Hong Kong's "Little Snake".

The so-called "snakehead" problem is that children born to Hong Kong permanent residents in the Mainland illegally enter Hong Kong without permission. Some people call those who illegally enter Hong Kong by sea "human snakes" and those who extradite them "snakeheads". Over time, children who enter Hong Kong illegally are also called "little snakes".

The lawsuit of "Little Snake" started from1September, 2008 1997. The prosecution is Zhang Jianli, a senior barrister representing Zhang Lihua (female 8 years old), Wu Jialing (female 65,438+00 years old), Wu Dandan (female 8 years old), Xu Quanli (male 65,438+09 years old) and Yang Nini (female 65,438+00 years old). The defense is Ma Daoli, Senior Counsel representing the Department of Justice of the Government. The court accepting the case is the original complaint of the Hong Kong High Court.

1 July 19971day, Hong Kong returned to the motherland and the Basic Law came into effect in the Special Administrative Region. Article 24 (2) (3) of the Law stipulates that children born to China citizens who are permanent residents of Hong Kong in the Mainland (Mainland) shall enjoy the right of permanent residence in Hong Kong. According to the data, there were 65,438+0.4 million children living in the applicant's Hong Kong at that time, and about 66,000 children actually met the requirements. In order to allow these children to come to Hong Kong for residence in an orderly manner, the Hong Kong SAR Government has taken a series of concrete measures in cooperation with relevant mainland authorities.

1On July 9, 1997, the Provisional Legislative Council of Hong Kong passed the Immigration (Amendment) (No.3) Ordinance, stipulating that children born in the Mainland to China citizens who are permanent residents of Hong Kong should first apply to the public security department of China for settlement in Hong Kong, and after verifying their identity, they will obtain a certificate of right of abode issued by the SAR Government; Secondly, get a pass to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region issued by the mainland public security department (also known as one-way permit, which is different from two-way permit). Third, the application must be made outside Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Immigration Department will not accept the application. The Ordinance also stipulates that illegal immigration incidents that occurred within eight days before its entry into force have "retrospective effect", that is, those who come to Hong Kong without the approval of the relevant mainland authorities must be repatriated to their places of origin and can only come to Hong Kong after obtaining a certificate of right of abode and a one-way permit.

As Hong Kong has a small population and limited education, housing, welfare and living resources, it is impossible to admit more than 60,000 children into Hong Kong at once, so I can only issue 150 one-way permit places every day. Some parents worry that the waiting time is too long and some rumors in the society confuse them, so they let their children go to Hong Kong illegally. According to the laws of the Hong Kong government, Hong Kong people who come to Hong Kong illegally face the fate of being repatriated, so some people complain to the court and ask for judicial protection. Due to the large number of cases, Judge Qi of the High Court, who is in charge of hearing related cases, asked barristers representing children and barristers of the SAR Government to select representative cases from many cases. After the judgment becomes a case, it will help to speed up the trial of other similar cases. After some consultations, the two sides agreed to choose four representative cases. The "Little Snake" lawsuit was formed.

Views on the small snake:

The right of abode of children born to Hong Kong people in the Mainland will inevitably cause an uproar.

Because it was a political farce from the beginning [1], but the problems it caused were not just political problems.

So simple.

From a political point of view, the government's intention to overturn the judgment of the Court of Final Appeal is already obvious.

It may have started like this: 1 On September 29th, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ruled that Hong Kong people were mainlanders.

The woman's right of abode ruling is not conducive to the Hong Kong government. Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa may not be used to the rule of law procedure, so he thinks

Losing face angered the Court of Final Appeal. Chief Executive Dong is a businessman from China.

The background of traditional businessmen is naturally efficient, paying attention to human feelings and face, and demanding flexibility. Take people for granted.

Emotion is a common method to improve work efficiency. Now ask the National People's Congress to explain and sacrifice.

It is only its traditional practice to solve the economic and demographic problems (possibly face problems) by the rule of law.

A continuation of. However, he may not be alone, there are many people behind the scenes.

It's good to be together. Later, Beijing has legal authority to express dissatisfaction with the judgment of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, saying

It was the Court of Final Appeal that "exceeded its authority" and "was above the NPC". The Secretary for Justice, Elsie Leung, went north to try to explain.

I worked as an expert in Beijing, and after I came back, I got the message that the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal might have made a mistake. Then Beijing Electric Power.

Wei's intentions have been combined with those of the Hong Kong government. The question is how to change the public opinion at that time.

At that time, public opinion unanimously supported the judgment of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and believed that the Beijing authorities should not interfere.

Justice in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong government deliberately exaggerates the number of mainland children of Hong Kong people, from tens of thousands.

The estimated number has jumped to1760,000, and all of them are low-skilled, with low academic qualifications and need leadership.

Poor relatives without education, such as comprehensive welfare, housing and education. Besides, they seem to be

As soon as we arrive, Hong Kong must be Lu Chen. After hearing this, how can Hong Kong people not panic? With this arrangement,

The government has successfully brought public opinion to the government's side, criticizing the government like an editorial in Ming Pao at most.

The government's "correct goal, poor means" [2], as long as the method can be corrected, but in general

The director's motives are good. What we need to do now is to explain what criteria are used to ask NPC to explain.

. So the conclusion is obvious that the government has successfully reversed the direction of public opinion. What the government means is that only

It is for everyone's good, and expedient measures are also necessary. The problem of methods can be discussed or modified.

Changing or interpreting the Basic Law will have the same result-overturning the judgment of the Court of Final Appeal.

. But the consequences are extremely serious, as Dr. Fernando Cheung, a lecturer at PolyU, pointed out, except the right of judicial independence.

Without it, one country, two systems can not be implemented, and it also causes serious social division [3]. There are more people in Hong Kong.

Rejecting mainlanders and treating them as a burden will only have a negative impact on society and hurt new immigrants.

It will get worse and worse.

Sadly, the government has succeeded in winning public opinion because Hong Kong people are really divided.

The attitude towards new immigrants also reflects the values of Hong Kong people to safeguard their own interests. Therefore, also

You can't totally blame the government. With such people, such a government will emerge. Improve the government's

Quality, improving people's quality is the most important thing. Huang Kelian, vice president of the Education Association, pointed out that in order to

With the development of the future society, it is urgent to educate people to accept new immigrants [4]. From education

From the point of view, values need to be established from the beginning of education, and children should teach them from the beginning.

Selflessness and self-protection will form a selfish society, and everyone is selfish, which

This kind of society is easily exploited by selfish governments.

1997 When a large number of child stowaways came to Hong Kong, there was a heated discussion about mainland children in Hong Kong.

On the right of abode issue, the government estimated at that time that there were 30,000 to130,000 people, but today it has reached 167 people.

Ten thousand, its exaggeration is incredible. But I remember I pointed out in this forum that according to China

From the perspective of Confucian ethics and philosophy, family reunion is of course the most ethical.

Seeking is also the most important thing in human nature. The problem of mainlanders immigrating to Hong Kong stems from the Confucian way.

Logically speaking, there is no reason to oppose mainland children coming to Hong Kong. There is only one reason against coming to Hong Kong.

One is to affect the quality of life of Hong Kong people, that is, Hong Kong's ability to absorb immigrants. university of science and technology

Zheng Guohan, a lecturer in economics, pointed out from an economic point of view that Hong Kong could not accept a large number of new immigrants.

It is estimated that new immigrants have only negative effects [5]. His argument is that new immigrants are low-skilled and low-skilled.

Education level, investing in them, is a big investment, and the rate of return is very low, so the influence of new immigrants.

The ring is negative. It is normal for him to come to such a conclusion because he has an assumption that human nature is

Selfish. This is worthy of forgiveness. Economists presuppose that people are selfish, otherwise, for example,

What is economic activity? But I came up with another angle, that is, economy is not the only criterion.

Confucianism provides another criterion. Confucianism believes that human nature is good and loves others.

It is human nature to love the person you love, which is undeniable. If a person thinks that relatives are more important than the economy.

You will choose the person you love. If Hong Kong people value their compatriots, they will choose them instead.

Share the economic consequences. The problem is that in reality, Hong Kong people do not regard their compatriots as compatriots, and there is obvious division.

Therefore, it is important to re-educate different values.

In fact, even economists do not support the government's population control.

Yi Jin, a columnist of Bao, once analyzed from the perspective of free economy and thought that the market would naturally adjust.

The number of immigrants, the government should not interfere [6]. In fact, in the end, the new immigrants are still Hong Kong people.

Whether the consequences are good or bad is a guess, and no one has a definite conclusion. According to applied ethics

The principle of learning, when analyzing these applied ethical issues, can use logic to analyze its moral principles,

But this matter is one-sided in support of family reunion in moral principle, and there is no need to argue. in addition

One method is to analyze the results in a predictive way, which involves the question of how the facts happen.

Be sure to analyze it according to actual experience and see how much empirical support there is. According to Xiang,

The past experience of Hong Kong shows that digesting new immigrants to Hong Kong is the reason for Hong Kong's success.

Our successful experience cannot be overturned. But if we insist that the social needs are different now, there are only

For high-quality immigrants, please also provide sufficient evidence.

However, the cultural quality of Hong Kong people will always be the most important factor in determining the progress of the government and society.

Great motivation. If people's cultural quality is not improved, unreasonable situations in society will emerge one after another.

Not poor. Therefore, education reform is very important, but Hong Kong is still stagnant and not enterprising here.

It's really worrying. In this right of abode incident, we can see that the quality of Hong Kong people is not optimistic.

Public opinion can be manipulated by the government without knowing it. It is such a quality.

There are a large number of new immigrants coming to Hong Kong, that is to say, without new immigrants, Hong Kong people will destroy Hong Kong by themselves. Please accept

Show love and wisdom. Remember the poet Du Fu's feelings for his compatriots?

"There are tens of millions of spacious buildings, and all the poor in the world are happy, and the wind and rain are not moving! beep

Oh! When I suddenly see this house in front of me, I will freeze to death alone! 」

Injection and release

[1] See the "Letter" column of Lin Xingzhi1May, 999 19: "..." Immigration shock.

Therefore, the soul is a farce directed by a well-meaning government. This article means "mainland children".

It is not a problem for women to come to Hong Kong, but the government exaggerates in order to reverse public opinion.

[2] See the editorial of Ming Pao1May, 999 19, entitled "The goal is correct, the hand. "

The paragraph is not good and needs to be filled urgently. "

[3] See Hong Kong News1entitled "National People's Congress Interprets the Law on the Right of Residence in Hong Kong" on May 20, 999.

Sequela ",written by Dr. Fernando Cheung, a lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Sciences of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

[4] See Ming Pao1entitled "Educating Hong Kong people to accept the new era" on May 22, 999.

Immigration ",written by Huang Kelian, vice president of the Education Professionals Association.

[5] See Ming Pao1entitled "Hong Kong's Ability to Absorb Immigrants" on May 20, 999.

Cheng Yi, written by Zheng Guohan, a professor of economics at the University of Science and Technology.

[6] See the column "There is no sword in the market" in the Letter1May 20, 999, written by Yi.

Jin, entitled "Protectionism of Hong Kong Population".