HAWAII GETS TOUGH ON ILLEGAL ALIENS

SEEMS, HAWAII GETS TOUGH ON MEXICAN NATIONALS. OR, HAVE WE JUST BEEN HEARING MORE ABOUT THEM LATELY. NO, CHINESE, JAPANESE, FILIPINOS, KOREANS, INDONESIANS, AUSTRALIAN, EUROPEANS. JUST MEXICANS



THEY DO EXIST!.






Police, Fire, Courts

By Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS







3 more illegal aliens arrested on Big Island
Three more illegal aliens from China have been arrested as the Coast Guard searched for the fishing boat that brought them and six others to the Big Island, officials said.

The nine Chinese nationals were turned over to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in Honolulu, which was processing them for a removal hearing, INS District Director Donald Radcliffe said.

The aliens apparently got off the boat at a reef off Keauhou on Monday night before it headed back out the sea, officials said.

The INS believes the captain and engineer of the boat are Taiwanese, Radcliffe said.

The U.S. Coast Guard notified the Hawaii County Police Department on Monday night that a boat may have grounded off the west side of the island and several Chinese nationals may have left the vessel, police Lt. Glenn Nojiri said.

Police arrested the first six Tuesday night after receiving a report that several men speaking only Chinese had walked up to a home wanting to use a telephone, Nojiri said.

The remaining three, who apparently hid in bushes when their six companions were picked up, were taken into custody yesterday morning, he said.

Meanwhile, a Coast Guard C130 aircraft searched for the boat about 75 miles west-northwest of Kailua-Kona, Chief Petty Officer Tyler Johnson said.