Local and federal agencies say that a group of more than a hundred Haitian migrants arrived in a sailboat off the lower Florida Keys
In this photo provided by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, a group of over 100 migrants from Haiti are shown after they arrived off Key West, Fla., in a sailboat early Wednesday, June, 26, 2024. A group of more than a hundred Haitian migrants arrived in a sailboat off the lower Florida Keys on early morning Wednesday, local and federal officials said.
The boat arrived about 100 yards away from a condominium in Key West at 4:00 a.m., and shortly after that law enforcement officers arrived to the scene, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said. Most of the 118 migrants were male, but the group also included women and children, the Sheriff's Office said.that has killed several thousand people in recent years and left hundreds of thousands homeless in the country’s capital.
With the support from federal, estate and local law enforcement agencies, U.S. Border Patrol agents responded to the arrival of Haitian migrants this week, said Samuel Briggs II, the acting Chief Patrol Agent of the agency in Miami, on the social media platform X. Paramedics were evaluating people at the scene and a group of them were transported to a local clinic, but none had life threatening injuries, said the Sheriff's Office.
U.S. policy is to deport noncitizens who do not establish a legal basis to remain in the United States.
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