32 Dominicans interdicted near Puerto Rico ("fleeing" from their government?)

[Judi Lynn]

32 Dominicans interdicted near Puerto Rico
Posted on Mon, Aug. 25, 2008
BY ERIKA BERAS
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U.S. Coast Guard employees and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents discovered 32 Dominicans traveling illegally from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico aboard a migrant boat Saturday night.

Twenty-two have been repatriated and 10 have been detained. Those that have been repatriated were taken to La Romana in the Dominican Republic on Sunday, after an at-sea interdiction by the Department of Homeland Security. The rest were taken ashore for prosecution.

The crew of a U.S. Customs and Border aircraft tracked the migrant boat Saturday night while patrolling Mona Passage waters, approximately 23 miles off of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.

The boat was described as ''a 25-foot, grossly overloaded boat that was disabled and adrift,'' according to a Coast Guard news release.

The crew of a helicopter flew rescue support at the scene, while the migrants disembarked their boat and went on board the Key Largo.

More:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/657057.html

[Bacchus39]

1. they certainly weren't on their way to Cuba n/t

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