Hong Kong nabs blind 10-year-old illegal immigrant .  HONG KONG 1996-08-27  A blind 10-year-old boy from China sneaked over the border into Hong Kong and was arrested as an illegal immigrant , Hong Kong police said on Tuesday .  He was caught by police trying to force his way into a home in the rural New Territories , a police spokesman said .  " The boy came from China 's eastern province of Jiangsu .  He was spotted by a passerby trying to climb into an apartment in the early hours of Monday morning , " the spokesman said .  No decision has yet been made on how to deal with the boy .  Hong Kong police regularly catch hundreds of illegal immigrants and people who have overstayed their visas from mainland China and send them back .  Hong Kong , a [START_ENT] British [END_ENT] colony , reverts to Chinese control next year but will remain sealed off from the mainland except to a tiny trickle of legal immigrants and people with special visit permits .
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