1.   Choi is a Korean who was questioned and released the night the boat ran aground but before the Bay Head police realized it had been carrying illegal immigrants.

2.   The immigration service, meanwhile, has been criticized on another front -- failure to collect fines from airlines for carrying illegal immigrants into the United States.

3.   Vehicles carrying illegal immigrants have been known to leave the highway before the checkpoint and get on the lower eastbound lanes to avoid detection.

4.   Vehicles carrying illegal immigrants have been known to exit the highway before the checkpoint and get on the lower eastbound lanes to avoid detection.

5.   Plans range from sharing the costs of border controls to using naval ships and planes to track and intercept boats carrying clandestine immigrants.

6.   Police said they did not know what caused the small boat equipped with an outboard motor, said to be carrying would-be immigrants from North Africa, to capsize.

7.   A coast guard patrol intercepted a United States-flagged sailboat believed to be carrying illegal immigrants through the Aegean Sea on Friday, the merchant marine ministry said.

8.   A boat carrying illegal immigrants from Turkey to Greece sank in the central Aegean Sea, killing six people, officials said.

9.   A stolen truck carrying illegal immigrants overturned in Temecula, Calif., killing eight people.

10.   A small plane that authorities suspect was carrying illegal immigrants to the United States crashed Sunday in the Dominican Republic, killing at least seven people.