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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The migrants, 120 men and 37 women, were traveling illegally to Puerto Rico aboard a 50-foot grossly overloaded wooden ‘yola’.<\/p>\n
“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. <\/p>\n
See: http:\/\/coastguardnews.com\/category\/security\/ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … <\/p>\n