The United States Coast Guard said it has repatriated 84 Haitians to their homeland following two interdictions of undocumented migrants.
“A good Samaritan notified Coast Guard District Seven watchstanders Sunday…of an overloaded sail freighter approximately 43 miles south of Turk and Caicos Islands,” the Coast Guard said in a statement.
It said also that the Coast Guard had intercepted “an overloaded sail freighter about 60 miles east of Cuba,” last week and that in both interdictions, the migrants were removed from their vessels due to safety of life at sea concerns.
The US Coast Guard in their release said that they are significantly increasing its patrols of the Windward Pass and the approaches to the southeastern United States to interdict and rescue migrants found aboard grossly overloaded, unseaworthy vessels.
