US Coast Guard repatriates 146 Dominicans

Oct 14 at 12:45 AM

Santo Domingo.– The crew of US Coast Guard Cutter Key Largo repatriated 146 Dominican migrants to La Romana, Friday morning, following an at-sea interdiction by Caribbean Border Interagency Group (CBIG) agencies Wednesday.

Coast Guard law enforcement personnel detained 11 Dominicans of the 157 migrants aboard the interdicted "yola," for attempting to enter illegally into the United States or a U.S. Territory on multiple occasions. The United States Attorney’s Office in Puerto Rico accepted to prosecute their cases.

The crew of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection fixed-wing aircraft located a migrant boat Wednesday afternoon while patrolling waters, approximately 20 nautical miles north of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

The migrants, 120 men and 37 women, were traveling illegally to Puerto Rico aboard a 50-foot grossly overloaded wooden yola.

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