63 migrants crammed into rustic wooden boat intercepted, 5 who'd been deported for felonies arrested
by LENNY COHEN | The National DeskTue, December 5th 2023, 6:11 PM EST
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AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico (TND) — Authorities intercepted a "yola"-type vessel with 63 undocumented migrants on board and stopped them from entering Puerto Rico.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the boat — with “48 males and 6 females from the Dominican Republic, and 8 males and 1 female from Haiti” — had been “navigating east towards the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico” on Friday.
It was trying to make the 80-mile trip from the Dominican Republic
“A voyage on a ‘yola’ is dangerous when boarding a rustic wooden boat, which takes on water during the journey,” Creighton Skeen, Director of Air and Marine Operations in the Caribbean, explained. “These unseaworthy vessels are only fitted with a single engine; they usually try to cross the sea overloaded and without life vests.”
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