The 10 Chinese immigrants after being intercepted by the US Coast Guard.
By DENISE MAYCOCK
Tribune Freeport Reporter
dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
A Bahamian and a group of Chinese nationals were intercepted by the US Coast Guard at sea during an illegal human smuggling operation last week, according to Immigration officials on Grand Bahama.
The immigrants were taken to Grand Bahama on January 28, but the Bahamian man was detained by US Coast Guard officials and is expected to face possible prosecution in the US for human smuggling.
According to reports, sometime around 6pm at Freeport Habour, officials of the USCG Cutter William Flores arrived with 10 Chinese immigrants (seven men and three women) who were discovered onboard a vessel piloted by a Bahamian male, heading toward Florida on January 20.
Immigration Napthali Cooper said the migrants were turned over to Immigration officials and officers of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force. They were taken to Immigration Headquarters in Freeport for processing.
He noted that all of the migrants had entered the Bahamas legally from China via Panama onboard Copa Airlines and were admitted as visitors into the Bahamas sometime before the Christmas of 2019.
Mr Cooper reported that the migrants were examined by the medical team from the Disease and Surveillance Unit of the Public Hospitals Authority.
They were flown to New Providence on Wednesday and will be detained at the Detention Centre to await repatriation to China.
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Well_mudda_take_sic 4 years, 2 months ago
Senior U.S. officials at the U.S. Embassy in The Bahamas and the senior people they report to at the U.S. Department of State should all be raked over hot coals for failing to strong arm the Minnis-led FNM government into imposing the most severe travel restrictions possible on all Red China nationals entering the The Bahamas by air or sea. These ongoing smuggling operations present a clear and present danger to the national security interests of the U.S.
It's well known that the Xi-led communist regime is now using the Bahamas as a stepping stone for the smuggling of spies and other Red China operatives into the U.S. Our incompetent government is supposedly letting these Red China nationals into our country on the basis of credentialled documents issued by the Xi-led communist regime, e.g. passports and other official travel documents. But these Red China nationals are then being smuggled into the U.S. which was all along their real destination. And think how many of them may have been exposed to the coronavirus in Red China.
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