By EARYEL BOWLEG
Tribune Staff Reporter
ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
AUTHORITIES intercepted a Haitian sailing vessel carrying 275 people over the weekend.
The US Coast Guard said in a statement on Monday that those apprehended were transferred to Bahamian authorities.
“Those attempting to illegally migrate to the US in an overloaded, unsafe vessel are putting themselves and their loved ones in extreme danger,” said Lt Cmdr Matt Spado, Coast Guard liaison officer to The Bahamas. “The Coast Guard and our partners are committed to stopping anyone who attempts an unlawful and unsafe voyage at sea.”
One hundred and sixty eight adult men, 47 adult women, 46 minor boys and 14 minor girls were detained. Two people required immediate medical assistance.
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ExposedU2C 10 months ago
The Bahamas is getting stuck with the costs associated with detaining and repatriating these illegal Haitian aliens because the U.S. government is well aware that there are senior officials in the Bahamian government who for decades have been involved in the highly lucrative trade of human trafficking. And fatheads like Bell will try tell you it costs our country less to grant these illegal Haitian aliens resident status in The Bahamas, with a path to Bahamian citizenship, rather than repatriate them back to Haiti.
ThisIsOurs 10 months ago
someone could cure this problem with a call to Keith Bell. Why go through the hadtle of detaining these people when they could be working. Right?
JokeyJack 10 months ago
Of course you are right !!! Bahamians should quit their jobs and leave them vacant for migrants. ALSO they should move out of their homes and live in a tent in the bush - leaving the homes available for migrants. Hotels can do the same - just like they do in New York and San Francisco - put out the guests and give the rooms to the migrants. Maybe we should murder our own children thereby leaving the schools available for the children of migrants too ? Just asking ?
M0J0 10 months ago
Sadly its where they are apprehended, if in Bahamian waters its the Bahamian issue. Our waters spread very far and wide. Sadly, there journey is to ultimately reach the U.S.A.
ExposedU2C 10 months ago
If we did not have an under-resourced and dysfunctional defense force, and kept the U.S. Coast Guard out of our territorial waters, then we could help channel to Florida most of the drugs, arms, and humans being smuggled through our nation that all along were intended/destined for the U.S.
birdiestrachan 10 months ago
All of them were comming to some one in the Bahamas , family members or friends, the laws are not tough enough so they break them came on a boat go back on a plane , they are sent back but very shortly return, free land and shanty towns
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