MIAMI – A boat carrying 396 Haitian migrants was detained by the U.S. Coastline Guard in the vicinity of the Bahamas in 1 of the largest human smuggling incidents in the region, Bahamian officials claimed.
U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman Nicole Groll mentioned Monday that the interdiction took place Saturday afternoon and concerned a 50-foot boat.
“It was grossly overloaded and quite much unsafe,” she explained
The migrants have been detained shut to the much-flung Cay Sal island positioned concerning Florida and Cuba.
Immigration officers explained the migrants will be processed on the Bahamian island of Inagua and later on repatriated.
Countless numbers of Haitians are fleeing a spike in gang violence and deepening political instability in a country that currently has no democratically elected establishments.
Several travel to the Bahamas and other nearby islands in hopes of sooner or later achieving Florida. The voyages are frequently lethal, with migrants crowding into makeshift vessels that have capsized in the latest months.
The exodus arrives as the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden recently declared that it would start off turning again Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans at the Texas border who arrive illegally. The administration is now presenting humanitarian parole for 30,000 persons a month from those people nations if they safe a economic sponsor, use online and fork out their airfare.
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