15 Haitian migrants taken into custody near Singer Island

8:47 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 | Filed in: Northern PBC

Fifteen undocumented migrants were taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol after they made landfall near Singer Island early this morning, officials say.

Border Patrol seized a 23-foot vessel and two people aboard the boat headed east after they were believed to be dropping off the migrants, border patrol spokesman Xavier Morales said.

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A group of suspected undocumented immigrants sit by a Border Patrol agent alongside Ocean Boulevard on Singer Island early Thursday, November 12, 2015. Over a dozen people were reported to have been taken into custody. (Lannis Waters / The Palm Beach Post)

“We suspect those two intercepted at sea dropped those people off,” he said.

The migrants, all believed to be from Haiti, were dropped ashore at 6:25 a.m. near John D. MacArthur State Park.

Border patrol took 10 men, three women, one teenage boy and one child into custody, Morales said.

Lannis WatersA group of suspected undocumented immigrants sit in a Border Patrol van alongside Ocean Boulevard on Singer Island early Thursday, November 12, 2015. Over a dozen people were reported to have been taken into custody. (Lannis Waters / The Palm Beach Post)

The incident is still under investigation and the two men taken into custody aboard the boat are being interviewed.

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