US Coast Guard intercepts dozens of migrants, ships them back
Story by Jorge Fitz-Gibbon • 11h
Coast Guard cutters intercepted dozens of migrants on the high seas as they tried to reach US soil — and shipped them to the Dominican Republic or turned them over to US Border Patrol, officials said.
The migrants were cut off in three separate operations over the past week off the waters of Puerto Rico and repatriated them over the past few days, the agency said in a press release Tuesday.
“The daily work accomplished by our watchstanders and responding Coast Guard and partner agency units is instrumental to stopping unlawful migration voyages at sea and removing migrants from a very dangerous environment,” Coast Guard Commander Matthew Roman said in a statement.
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