The Briefing Room
General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 23, 2023, 05:03:22 pm
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US Coast Guard detains boat carrying 396 Haitian migrants near Bahamas
Many Haitian migrants travel to the Bahamas in hopes of reaching Florida
The U.S. Coast Guard has detained a boat carrying 396 Haitian migrants near the Bahamas in one of the biggest human smuggling incidents in the region, Bahamian officials said.
The migrants were detained close to the far-flung Cay Sal island located between Florida and Cuba, immigration officials in the Bahamas said in a statement Sunday.
They said the migrants will be processed on the Bahamian island of Inagua and later repatriated.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-coast-guard-detains-boat-carrying-396-haitian-migrants-bahamas