Chinese migrants flood South Florida via boat as authorities seek help with Cuban smugglersAmid a nationwide crackdown on known criminal aliens in the first days of President Donald Trump's second arrival at the White House, police and federal agents have stumbled upon dozens of Chinese migrants in Coral Gables, Florida, and arrested at least four suspected smugglers from Cuba and another from Haiti.
Now local authorities are hoping that more resources from the state and federal government will help them protect the coastal enclave, just west of Miami.
The waterfront city has more coastline to protect than Miami Beach.
Police said a witness reported seeing a suspicious man shoving a woman into a Toyota Corolla parked near a U-Haul van. Responding officers, investigating the incident as a possible kidnapping, found 22 migrants in the van, most of them believed to be Chinese. They found three more migrants in the Toyota, from Ecuador and Brazil.
Investigators found it suspicious that they had valuables like phones and jewelry, but no typical items a tourist would carry, including luggage, spare clothes or sunscreen.
The migrants were taken to a U.S. Border Patrol facility...............
........Police arrested three Cuban nationals on suspicion of smuggling the migrants: Lucas Sedeno Rodriguez, 52; Jose Luis Villares, 55; and Keiner Cicilia Rodriguez, 39.
The migrants had all arrived via boat from the Bahamas, according to federal prosecutors.
Sedeno Rodriguez allegedly told investigators that he had been offered $5,000 from a contact named "Miggy" to pick up the migrants once they landed..............
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