146 Haitians Stopped At Sea, Sent Home

Coast Guard Stops Boat Carrying Haitians

POSTED: Friday, March 20, 2009
UPDATED: 4:46 pm EDT March 20, 2009

U.S. Coast Guard
MIAMI -- A group of 146 Haitian migrants was returned to Haiti on Friday morning after the U.S. Coast Guard stopped their boat near the Turks and Caicos Islands Wednesday.

According to a news release by the U.S. Coast Guard, a jet crew spotted the overloaded 50-foot motorboat. A Coast Guard patrol boat and cutter stopped the boat about 18 miles south of West Caicos.

Officials said there were 101 men and 45 women aboard the boat.

Crewmembers took the people aboard the Coast Guard cutter and took them back to Cap Haitien, Haiti, on Friday morning.

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