US detains 396 Haitian immigrants near Bahamas

The Coast Guard of USA stopped a boat with 396 immigrants Haitians near the Bahamas, one of the largest human smuggling incidents in the region, Bahamian authorities reported.

The migrants were detained near the remote island of salt caylocated between Florida and Cuba, Bahamian immigration officials said in a statement Sunday.

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They indicated that the migrants will be processed on the Bahamian island of inagua and later repatriated.

Nicole Grollspokesman for the United States Coast Guard, said they were intercepted on Saturday afternoon and that there was a 50-foot boat that was “very overloaded and unsafe”.

No further details were available at the moment.

Thousands of Haitians are fleeing increased gang violence and deepening political instability in a country that currently has no democratically elected institutions.

Many travel to the Bahamas and other nearby islands in the hope of later reaching Florida. The journeys are often deadly, with migrants crammed into makeshift boats that have capsized in recent months.

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The exodus takes place at the time that the government of the US president Joe Biden recently announced that it will begin to stop the illegal entry of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants at the Texas border. Washington now offers a humanitarian visa for 30,000 people a month from those countries if they obtain a financial sponsor, apply online and pay for their plane ticket.

Source: Elcomercio

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