On Monday, the United States Coast Guard cutter Donald Horsley repatriated 29 illegal migrants to the Dominican Republic.
It followed the interdiction of an overloaded vessel in Mona Passage waters off the west coast of Puerto Rico.
Five Dominican men who participated in the illegal voyage were facing federal prosecution at the U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico on various charges.
The Coast Guard transferred them to Ramey Sector U.S. Border Patrol agents in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
Since October 1, 2022, through August 28, 2023, the Coast Guard has carried out 64 irregular migration voyage interdictions in the Mona Passage and waters near Puerto Rico.
Interdicted were 1,965 non-U.S. citizens.
They included 1,675 Dominicans, 264 Haitians, 15 Venezuelans, seven Kazakhs, one Albanian, two Colombians, and one individual of unknown nationality.
Any third-party or user posts, comments, replies, and third-party entries published on the St. Lucia Times website (https://stluciatimes.com) in no way convey the thoughts, sentiments or intents of St. Lucia Times, the author of any said article or post, the website, or the business. St. Lucia Times is not responsible or liable for, and does not endorse, any comments or replies posted by users and third parties, and especially the content therein and whether it is accurate.
St. Lucia Times reserves the right to remove, screen, edit, or reinstate content posted by third parties on this website or any other online platform owned by St. Lucia Times (this includes the said user posts, comments, replies, and third-party entries) at our sole discretion for any reason or no reason, and without notice to you, or any user. For example, we may remove a comment or reply if we believe it violates any part of the St. Lucia Criminal Code, particularly section 313 which pertains to the offence of Libel. Except as required by law, we have no obligation to retain or provide you with copies of any content you as a user may post, or any other post or reply made by any third-party on this website or any other online platform owned by St. Lucia Times. All third-parties and users agree that this is a public forum, and we do not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any content you as a user may post, or any other post or reply made by any third-party on this website. Any posts made and information disclosed by you is at your own risk.
Major issue needs to be placed on the table towards the US. Come on CRICOM open you all eyes, lets open doors to those who wanted to migrate and develop our own food and industries we can join the BRIC what is wrong with that? OR our leaders are hell bent to place our fellow Caricom member state to suffer?