NewsWhore
10-13-2008, 05:50 PM
Coast Guard Cutter Key Largo repatriated 146 Dominican migrants to La Romana on Friday, following their at-sea interception by Caribbean Border Inter-agency Group (CBIG) agencies patrolling Caribbean waters last Wednesday.
Coast Guard law enforcement personnel detained 11 Dominicans of the 157 migrants aboard a small craft known as a 'yola' approximately 20 nautical miles north of Isabela, Puerto Rico, for attempting to illegally enter the United States or a US territory on multiple occasions. The United States Attorney's Office in Puerto Rico agreed to prosecute their cases.
The migrants, 120 men and 37 women, were traveling illegally to Puerto Rico aboard a 50-foot grossly overloaded wooden 'yola'.
"This was a very dangerous case with the potential of turning into a mass casualty search and rescue operation," said Capt. Eduardo Pino, Commander, Sector San Juan.
See: http://coastguardnews.com/category/security/
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Coast Guard law enforcement personnel detained 11 Dominicans of the 157 migrants aboard a small craft known as a 'yola' approximately 20 nautical miles north of Isabela, Puerto Rico, for attempting to illegally enter the United States or a US territory on multiple occasions. The United States Attorney's Office in Puerto Rico agreed to prosecute their cases.
The migrants, 120 men and 37 women, were traveling illegally to Puerto Rico aboard a 50-foot grossly overloaded wooden 'yola'.
"This was a very dangerous case with the potential of turning into a mass casualty search and rescue operation," said Capt. Eduardo Pino, Commander, Sector San Juan.
See: http://coastguardnews.com/category/security/
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)