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====Operation Prompt Return==== In July 1995, various units of the U.S. military established a camp on Wake Island to provide housing, food, medical care, and social activities for Chinese [[illegal immigration|illegal immigrants]] as part of ''Operation Prompt Return'' (also known as ''Joint Task Force Prompt Return''). The Chinese immigrants were discovered on July 3 on board the ''M/V Jung Sheng Number 8'' when the 160-foot-long vessel was [[Interdiction|interdicted]] by the U.S. Coast Guard south of Hawaii. The ''Jung Sheng'' had left [[Guangzhou|Canton]], China en route to the United States on June 2 with 147 Chinese [[Illegal Immigrants]], including 18 "enforcers", and 11 crew on board. On July 29, the Chinese were transported to Wake Island, where they were cared for by U.S. military personnel, and on August 7, they were safely [[Repatriation|repatriated]] to China by commercial air charter. From October 10 to November 21, 1996, military units assigned to ''Operation Marathon Pacific'' used facilities at Wake Island as a staging area for the repatriation of another group of more than 113 Chinese illegal immigrants who had been interdicted in the Atlantic Ocean near [[Bermuda]] aboard the human smuggling vessel, the ''Xing Da''.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Medical care of illegal migrants intercepted on the high sea (Operation Prompt Return)|first1=R.E.|last1=Ellyson|first2=C.|last2=Callahan|first3=Y.T.|last3=Lee|journal=Military Medicine|date=October 1996|volume=161|number=10|pages=616β619|doi=10.1093/milmed/161.10.616|pmid=8918124|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Military Responses to the Global Migration Crisis: A Glimpse of Things to Come|first=Paul J.|last=Smith|url=http://hdl.handle.net/10427/76842|journal=Fletcher Forum of World Affairs|volume=23|number=2|date=1999|page=87|hdl=10427/76842|access-date=September 20, 2021|archive-date=June 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604181232/https://dl.tufts.edu/concern/pdfs/qv33s722m|url-status=live}}</ref> [[File:Wake Atoll ISS001.jpg|thumb|Wake island as seen in March 2001 from the International Space Station]]
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