The Pulse：Co-location arrangement at XRL & alleged cases of cross-border law enforcement in HK

Apparent abductions of publishers and a billionaire from Hong Kong, alleged investigations by outside agents of individuals who sheltered a US whistle-blower, and attempts to intimidate a newspaper critical of the Hong Kong government and mainland officials: so how porous are Hong Kong’s boundaries when forces, official or otherwise ignore them?And we’re beginning with a related topic: whether mainland immigration officials should be able to enforce law in Hong Kong. With us in the studio are Hung Wing-tat from the HK Society of Transportation Studies, and legislator Alvin Yeung to talk about the co-location immigration checkpoints controversy at the Express Rail Link.
Hong Kong may not yet have gone to the Trumpian extreme of outright bans on migrants and refugees entering the territory, but the SAR is hardly a bastion of compassion for those in need. Last year, former Secretary for Security Regina Ip suggested building an asylum-seeker detention camp in Shenzhen to deter what she called “fake refugees”. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has also said the SAR might unilaterally withdraw from the United Nations’ convention on torture, which guarantees rights to amnesty seekers. As we’ve previously reported people seeking asylum in Hong Kong don’t have an easy time. But alleged investigations of one such group by overseas law enforcement officers, as well as mysterious removal of individuals wanted by mainland authorities, raise the question of whether those already in Hong Kong are safe from agents, official or otherwise, from outside.