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A view of the vessel Golden Venture aground off the beach, with numerous migrants and police ashore.
Picture 1		 A blue, 140 foot long line fishing vessel.
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A rusty, 120 foot retired fishing vessel.
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A cargo hold in disorder, filled with personal items of many migrants.
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PRC migrants from M/V GOLDEN VENTURE that landed in NY in 1993. A stateless PRC migrant smuggling vessel interdicted by CGC GALVESTON ISLAND off of Guam in June 1998. A stateless PRC migrant smuggling vessel interdicted by CGC GALVESTON ISLAND south of Guam in Oct 1998. The hold of a vessel smuggling PRC migrants.
A small cargo ship.
Picture 5		 A small cargo ship, with a Coast Guard cutter in the background.
Picture 6		 A side view of an old fishing vessel.
Picture 7		 A side view of a fishing vessel with a large number of PRC migrants on deck.
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The LAPAS III, a PRC migrant smuggling vessel interdicted in 1997. The LAPAS III. M/V ORIENTAL I, a Venezuelan flagged vessel that discharged 23 Chinese migrants ashore at Bayhead, NJ in May 1998. PRC Migrants aboard the Fishing Vessel CHIH YUNG.  This vessel was interdicted with 172 migrants in Sept, 1998.

A fishing vessel with PRC migrants on deck enters San Diego Harbor.
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A small fishing vessel.
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A cargo hold filled with PRC migrants.
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A cargo hold with PRC migrants.
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A small, Asian fishing vessel, moored next to a larger fishing vessel.
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A small fishing vessel.
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A Coast Guard petty officer adminsters an IV to a PRC migrant.
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Coast Guard personnel distribute food and water to the migrants.
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A smuggling vessel interdicted in Jan, 99 attempting to smuggle 60 PRC migrants into Guam. A smuggling vessel interdicted in Apr 99 smuggling PRC migrants A PRC migrant receives medical care from a Coast Guard boarding team. PRC migrants receive food and water after the interdiction

Looking down into a cargo hold with PRC migrants.
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An Asian fishing vessel.
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A small fishing vessel being brought alongside a pier by a Coast Guard cutter.
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A kitchen area in a state of disrepair and filth.
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A migrant vessel interdicted in May 1999 off Guam. A migrant smuggling vessel moors in Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI), named TEESUNE, or "Steel Boat" by the migrants. TEESUNE's kitchen area.

A cargo vessel anchored in the harbor.
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A cargo vessel moored to a pier.
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The stern of a cargo vessel.
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A cargo vessel.
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M/V PU PROGRESS, interdicted in Long Beach, CA in Sept 99 smuggling 45 PRC migrants. M/V PRINCE NICKOLAS, interdicted by Coast Guard and INS smuggling 132 PRC migrants into Savannah, Georgia. A vessel smuggling PRC migrants interdicted north of Guam in August 1999. Another view of the vessel interdicted in Aug 99.

A frighter with rows of PRC migrants sitting on deck.
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An overhead view of an old cargo vessel with a Coast Guard small boat alongside it.
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A old cargo vessel filled with PRC Migrants. A Coast Guard boat is recovering migrants in the water.
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The view from the pilot house of a migrant vessel with large numbers of people on deck. Off in the distance is a Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter.
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Migrants on deck of the vessel interdicted in Aug 99. M/V WING FUNG LUNG smuggling PRC migrants off the coast of Guatemala in Dec 99. The Coast Guard recovers several migrants who jump off M/V WING FUNG LUNG interdicted off the coast of Guatemala in Dec 99. M/V WING FUNG LUNG.

A very rusty cargo vessel with migrants out on deck. Coast Guard boarding team members stand guard.
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A member of the Coast Guard looking at containers through a camera mounted on a tripod.
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M/V WING FUNG LUNG. Coast Guard personnel inspect containers coming off a container ship suspected of having migrants stowed away.

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