Each ship also purchases large amounts of petroleum products. food and medical supplies and services. The fleets continued presence is essential to Guams growing private sector and increasing independence from Federal subsidies. Under current Federal immigration law. designed primarily to cope with problems which arose in San Diego. alien crewmen on ships homeported or operating out of Guam cannot go on shore leave when their ships enter Guams port. This resulted in the past in severe morale problems for the crews of the American tuna boats and in violence. The problems in San Diego resulted from alien crewmen residing in San Diego with their families.
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