16 Chinese found in cargo container :

The Long Beach Press Telegram ^ | Sunday, February 3, 2002 | Kristopher Hanson

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

16 Chinese found in cargo container

By Kristopher Hanson
Staff writer

LONG BEACH - Sixteen Chinese nationals were apprehended Saturday morning after being discovered crammed inside a filthy shipping container in the Port of Long Beach, officials said.

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The detainees, all men or boys, were found inside one of roughly 3,000 large metal containers that arrived in port on a Chinese government-owned freighter, said Tom Graber, an Immigration and Naturalization Service port director.

Their capture marks the second time in a week that smuggled Chinese men have been found in the port. Four men were found wandering around the port last week in a similar smuggling operation in which 11 men were estimated to have escaped, Graber said.

The men detained Saturday had apparently agreed to pay their smugglers about $60,000 for a voyage to the United States that began on Jan. 19 in the southern Chinese province of Chiwan, officials said.

"They had car batteries set up to power makeshift lights, bottled water, bottles to urinate in and some food," Graber said. "The conditions were absolute filth."

The detainees arrived on the Han We freighter at the Cosco Agencies terminal, Graber said.

"It's the same place where they caught those guys last week," Graber said. "In that case, the men were able to shimmy down some sheets and escape. They were able to get out before anyone knew about it."

INS officials, acting on a tip, arrested the 16 males, three of whom claimed to be 17, as their container was opened at about 11:15 a.m.

"The container was located in the hull of the vessel, so it took about two hours to actually extract it out of the hold," Graber said.

The men were taken to an INS detention center on Terminal Island and appeared to be in good health, he said.

A typical shipping container is about 10 feet high, 6 feet wide and 30 feet long. Small holes are usually cut into the floorboard to allow air to flow in and out.

[Draco]

Things must be swell in China.

[M. Thatcher]

Military age. Hmmm. Little in-house Chinese army being assembled, eh?

[MotleyGirl70]

They were actually headed to New York to stay at Hitlery's house.

Hitlery Clinton was unavailable for comment.

[TwoStep]

**Bump**

[eastforker]

where did they get those dimensions,it more like 9 feet high eight feet wide and either 20 ,40 or 45 feet long and they do not have holes cut into the floor,that is if it is an intermodel container,that can be hauled by ship,truck or rail,I haven't realy seen any other type.

[doc]

This total is the equivalent of 60 seconds worth of illegals crossing over from Mexico on the San Diego border.

[ASA Vet]

I've got to Hmmm right along with you on this.

The INS should detain them in one area,
then watch to see if one or two of them appear to be in charge.
Those are the Officers or NCOs.

[M. Thatcher]

I've been noticing reports of similar stowaways in other places surrounding the U.S. Always men of military age.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That is my big fear , I am too close to the port!

[monkeywrench]

"had apparently agreed to pay their smugglers about $60,000 for a voyage to the United States..." Wouldn't these chinese be considered wealthy in china?

[Republic]

I've been noticing reports of similar stowaways in other places surrounding the U.S. Always men of military age.

Remember the fights to keep COSCO away from taking over long beach?

I wonder if these so called boys/men are really part of a long term chinese strategy to bring terror to the US. Wonder if they had contacts set up here in the US to take them in, feed and water and train and arm them. Wonder if there have been two such episodes in TWO WEEKS if this hasn't been going on week in week out....

Cosco-tho not our nation's friend (it is owned by the chinese government, of course)-certainly was/is bill clinton's and diane feinstein's friend.

Wonder how many more of these stowaways are ramming into the ports on either end of the Panama Canal everyday?

Every single ship that enters into the US territory from China should be inspected top to bottom. I don't think these men were capable of getting 60,000 gran together. I think they are here with their country's blessing. The trappings simply make it LOOK like they are stowaways so that no one will question behind the sordid veneer.

If the chinese are willing to smuggle AK-47's onto the streets of our nation, they are CERTAINLY willing to smuggle human beings capable of causing unrest and harm.

Call me a conspiracy nut, whatever, this is a valid scenario.

[End Times Sentinel]

Clean ‘em up, re-supply with food and water, stick ‘em back in the crate and send it back to China.

Owl _ Eagle
“Guns before butter.”

[M. Thatcher]

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[Consort]

Chinese usually comes in little cartons.

[ASA Vet]

Yep, and way to much MSG

[Young Werther]

..and I suspect that the dnc will sponsor these future Democrap voters!

[heleny]

The poor INS officials.... It must have smelled terrible when they opened the cargo box.
It's no wonder they might prefer to look the other way and let in some illegals.

We should bill China for the cost of decontamination and for insulting us, perhaps of an amount equal to the amount they billed us after they crashed into our EP-3 last year, and charge China will human trafficking (and then kick them out of the WTO).

[Enemy Of The State]

We should charge them a fine for each day there are here without a visa then demand compensation from China just as they did to our men and women they kidnapped