Liu Peng-chen, deputy commissioner of the bureau, says that children from the mainland have been coming to Taiwan for a long time. According to entry and exit controls under martial law, children and old people from the mainland under 16 or over 75 were exempt from the rule of having to live in a noncommunist area for a full five years before being able to come to Taiwan.
境管局副局長劉蓬春指出，台灣地區早有大陸小孩，戒嚴時期人民入出境管制中，大陸人士凡在十六歲以下及七十五歲以上，都可不受「須在自由地區住滿五年才可來台」的規定。