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In this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, photo, a man works on a commercial fishing boats docked at Pier 38 in Honolulu. Hawaii authorities may have been violating their own state laws for years by issuing commercial fishing licenses to thousands of foreign workers who have been refused entry into the United States, The Associated Press has found. About 700 of these men are currently confined to vessels in Honolulu without visas, some making less than $1 an hour. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016, file photo, a federal law enforcement officer talks to foreign fishermen in Hawaii's commercial fleet during a vessel inspection in Honolulu. Hawaii authorities may have been violating their own state laws for years by issuing commercial fishing licenses to thousands of foreign workers who have been refused entry into the United States, The Associated Press has found. About 700 of these men are currently confined to vessels in Honolulu without visas, some making less than $1 an hour. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
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FILE - In this March 24, 2016, file photo, a United States Coast Guard team moves toward an American fishing vessel off the coast of Honolulu for an inspection. Hawaii authorities may have been violating their own state laws for years by issuing commercial fishing licenses to thousands of foreign workers who have been refused entry into the United States, The Associated Press has found. About 700 of these men are currently confined to vessels in Honolulu without visas, some making less than $1 an hour. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, a group of residents and activists stand outside the Hawaii State Capitol ahead of a meeting about labor conditions for foreign fishermen in Hawaii's commercial fleet in Honolulu. Hawaii authorities may have been violating their own state laws for years by issuing commercial fishing licenses to thousands of foreign workers who have been refused entry into the United States, The Associated Press has found. About 700 of these men are currently confined to vessels in Honolulu without visas, some making less than $1 an hour. (AP Photo/Cathy Bussewitz)
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In this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, photo, commercial fishing boats are docked at Pier 38 in Honolulu. Hawaii authorities may have been violating their own state laws for years by issuing commercial fishing licenses to thousands of foreign workers who have been refused entry into the United States, The Associated Press has found. About 700 of these men are currently confined to vessels in Honolulu without visas, some making less than $1 an hour. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
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In this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, photo, a man stands on a commercial fishing boat docked at Pier 38 in Honolulu. Hawaii authorities may have been violating their own state laws for years by issuing commercial fishing licenses to thousands of foreign workers who have been refused entry into the United States, The Associated Press has found. About 700 of these men are currently confined to vessels in Honolulu without visas, some making less than $1 an hour. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
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In this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, photo, a catch of fish is unloaded from a commercial fishing boat at Pier 38 in Honolulu. Hawaii authorities may have been violating their own state laws for years by issuing commercial fishing licenses to thousands of foreign workers who have been refused entry into the United States, The Associated Press has found. About 700 of these men are currently confined to vessels in Honolulu without visas, some making less than $1 an hour. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2011 file photo, flowers and lei are placed on the Ehime Maru Memorial at Kakaako Waterfront Park Ehime Maru Memorial Service at Kakaako Waterfront Park in Honolulu. The families of nine people killed when a U.S. Navy submarine rammed into a Japanese fishing ship off Hawaii 16 years ago are set to remember their loved ones. The families will attend a ceremony Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 on a Honolulu hill overlooking the ocean where the vessels collided. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 26, 2016 file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, and delegation bow at the Ehime Maru Memorial at Kakaako Waterfront Park in Honolulu. The memorial is dedicated to the victims of a 2001 deadly collision off the coast of Hawaii between the Ehime Maru, a fisheries training vessel, and a U.S. naval submarine. The families of nine people killed when the submarine rammed into the ship off Hawaii 16 years ago are set to remember their loved ones. The families will attend a ceremony Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 on a Honolulu hill overlooking the ocean where the vessels collided. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2001 file photo, a blue tarp covers the damaged area of the USS Greeneville docked at Pearl Harbor as it undergoes repairs in Honolulu. The submarine's rudder and port side were damaged after it collided with a Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru nine miles south of Oahu on Feb. 9, 2001. The families of nine people killed when the submarine rammed into a Japanese fishing ship off Hawaii 16 years ago are set to remember their loved ones. The families will attend a ceremony Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 on a Honolulu hill overlooking the ocean where the vessels collided. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2001 file photo, survivors from the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru, which collided with a U.S. Navy submarine, sit on a U.S. Coast Guard vessel after being rescued near Honolulu. The families of nine people killed when the U.S. Navy submarine rammed into the Japanese fishing ship off Hawaii 16 years ago are set to remember their loved ones. The families will attend a ceremony Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 on a Honolulu hill overlooking the ocean where the vessels collided. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman, File)
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FILE - This March 17, 2016 photo shows a woman reading a sign informing people a building is closed on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus after an explosion in Honolulu. A postdoctoral fellow who lost her right arm in a University of Hawaii laboratory explosion is suing the school and the researchers she worked for. Thea Ekins-Coward and her wife filed the lawsuit in state court in Honolulu in Jan. 2017. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)
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Justin Thomas reacts after making an eagle putt on the final hole for an 11-under-par 59, during the first round of the Sony Open golf tournament Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, in Honolulu. (Dennis Oda/The Honolulu Advertiser via AP)
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This 2001 photo shows Bill Kwon in Honolulu. Longtime Hawaii sports writer Bill Kwon, who covered generations of golfers from Arnold Palmer to Michelle Wie, has died. He was 81. Kwon's friend and former colleague Ann Miller says he passed away Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 at a Honolulu nursing home where he had been living for about a year. She didn't know his cause of death. (Eugene Tanner/The Star-Advertiser via AP)
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Michael Ramos, district attorney for San Bernardino County and president of the National District Attorneys Association, speaks at a summit on sex trafficking at the Sheraton Waikiki on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, in Honolulu. Prosecutors are calling the scourge of sex trafficking a form of modern-day slavery that touches every state in the nation, and they're working to draw connections between active investigations around the globe at a summit in the Waikiki neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Cathy Bussewitz)
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In this Aug. 7, 2014, file photo, clouds hang over Honolulu as Hurricane Iselle approaches. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Central Pacific Hurricane Center says the 2015 hurricane season in the region will see more storms than average from June 1 through Nov. 30. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)
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HONOLULU, HI -This May 21, 2014 photo shows Duke Kahanamoku Beach in the Honolulu tourist neighborhood of Waikiki in Hawaii. The destination topped this year's annual ranking of the best public beaches in the United States as chosen by Stephen Leatherman, better known as Dr. Beach. (AP Photo/Sam Eifling)
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George Washington coach Mike Lonergan watches his team play Colorado in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game at the Diamond Head Classic on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014, in Honolulu. (AP Photo /Eugene Tanner)
