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Coast Guard intercepts 101 US-bound migrants in boats on the high seas, then sends them back home
By Social Links forJorge Fitz-Gibbon
Published April 9, 2024, 2:11 p.m. ET

The US Coast Guard shipped 101 migrants back to the Dominican Republic after nabbing them on the high seas as they tried to make their way to American soil over the weekend, officials said Tuesday.

The Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Texanos sent the sea-borne migrants packing on Monday after intercepting three different crafts loaded with the scofflaws, according to a press release.

“The Coast Guard works daily with our local, federal and Dominican Republic Navy partners in our shared and unwavering resolve to stop unlawful maritime migration voyages in the Mona Passage,” San Jose Sector Commander Gerard Wenk said in a statement.
 

“These voyages are extremely dangerous since they most often take place aboard grossly overloaded vessels that are unseaworthy and continuously take on water,” Wenk said. “These conditions, along with unpredictable weather patterns in the Mona Passage, could cause a vessel to capsize without notice resulting in loss of life. Don’t take to the sea.”

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Is the CG required to give them first class airfare back as a nice gesture for their arduous trip? :tongue2:
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address