MIAMI, CMC – The US Coast Guard says the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Venturous repatriated 65 migrants to Haiti on Tuesday following an interdiction of a migrant enterprise close to Nice Inagua, Bahamas.
The US Coast Guard mentioned an excellent Samaritan notified watchstanders within the Seventh Coast Guard District command middle of a crusing vessel in misery on March 7.
“The Coast Guard’s main mission as a member of the Homeland Safety Job Power- Southeast (HSTF-SE) is to protect human life at sea,” mentioned Captain Willie Carmichael, Incident Commander for Operation Vigilant Sentry.
“The maritime surroundings is inherently harmful and may change into lethal aboard crowded unseaworthy vessels,” he added. “The Coast Guard will proceed working with our HSTF-SE companions to rescue and repatriate anybody making an attempt irregular migration through sea routes, no matter nationality.”
The US Coast Guard mentioned its crews repatriated 131 migrants to Haiti in fiscal yr 2024, which started on October 1, 2023.
“The Coast Guard and its Homeland Safety Job Power – Southeast companions will proceed to be a presence within the air and on the waters of the Florida Straits and the Caribbean to detect and deter makes an attempt to enter the US unlawfully by sea,” the US Coast Guard mentioned.
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