The US Coast Guard says that nearly 5,478 Haitians and 3,722 Cubans have been caught by US authorities in the Florida Straits, the Caribbean and the Atlantic, compared to 601 Dominicans over the 2014 US fiscal year.
On Monday, 6 October 2014, El Dia reported that 65% of all arrested in illegal boat trips leaving the Dominican Republic were Haitian. The Armada (Navy) has arrested 1,260 people, of whom 805 were from Haiti.