THE Immigration Department said 46 migrants were turned over to the Enforcement Unit of the Grand Bahama district from the United States Coast Guard Cutter Paul Clark.
The group was found in waters near Anguilla Cay on Friday, August 12.
The group consisted of 31 Cubans. Twenty-one were men, six were women and four were children.
There were also two men and two women from Jamaica.
Additionally, seven Haitians - three men and four women; three Chinese men; and one Brazilian woman were among the group.
In keeping with the Department and the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 guidelines, all migrants were examined, tested and subsequently transported to the Carmichael Road Detention Centre on Friday for further processing and to await repatriation to their homeland; all safety protocols were strictly observed during transport and handover.
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tribanon 1 year, 9 months ago
They were all headed to the U.S. and the U.S. Coast Guard nevertheless decided to make them our headache and cost. Meanwhile the Biden administration is letting droves of illegal aliens flow into the U.S. daily across the Mexico-U.S. border.
With a friend like the U.S. government, the Bahamas and the Bahamian people need no enemy. LOL
birdiestrachan 1 year, 9 months ago
I wonder about that myself, but during to the fact that I graduated from the university of of common sense they are found in Bahamian water
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tribanon 1 year, 9 months ago
Don't be too quick to assume these illegal aliens were actually found in our territorial waters.
We need to seriously re-think allowing the U.S. Coast Guard to patrol our territorial waters. They are doing us no favours by handing over to us every boat load of illegal Haitian and Cuban aliens that they find at sea headed to the U.S. That's helping the U.S. but not The Bahamas!
Instead we should be beefing up the number of our own Bahamas Defense Force vessels at sea so that they can help show and direct the many boat loads of illegal Haitian and Cuban aliens the way to U.S. territorial waters and the Florida coastline.
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