The Canadian government said a ship carrying 490 migrants that arrived in B.C. Friday is part of an international human smuggling ring, and that more ships will be on the way soon unless the country takes a hard stance.
The MV Sun Sea arrived at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt Esquimalt near Victoria, just after dawn morning [...]
Apparently this article was written by someone who doesn’t read the news. As if writing this article has just exposed a little know method of sneaking into the country. Maybe the US should have some sort of program to intercept these illegals from trying to get into the US via the ocean. Hmmm. Anyway. From the AP:
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San Juan, PR.– Caribbean Border Interagency Group (CBIG) federal authorities arrested two subjects of the Dominican Republic Monday after they were caught dropping off nine Cuban aliens in Mona Island last night.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office accepted to prosecute the cases of the two Dominican men for charges of smuggling aliens and for attempting to enter [...]
Border patrol and law enforcement officers are hunting for a group of stowaways who arrived Monday morning on a container ship from Honduras at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale.
Officials set up a perimeter around the ship, the Elb Carrier, owned by Crowley Marine Services.
Agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection along with Broward sheriff’s deputies [...]
When immigration authorities noticed an increase in the number of people and drugs landing on San Diego County beaches on small boats about three years ago, they began to develop a task force that included everyone from the U.S. Coast Guard to local police to combat the surge.
From 2007 to 2010, the number of illegal [...]
The U.S. Coast Guard returned 28 Cuban migrants to Cuba Friday, after intercepting two rustic boats headed for Florida earlier in the week. On Tuesday, a Coast Guard aircraft spotted a boat carrying seven migrants near Elboy Cay, Bahamas. Coast Guard Cutter Nantucket picked up the boat’s occupants. On Wednesday, a boat carrying 23 Cuban [...]
Federal patrols of the waters off the coast of San Diego intercepted two attempts by illegal immigrant smugglers in recent days.
Marine interdiction agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported the first attempt around 3 a.m. on July 31 while on patrol about five miles off La Jolla.
Using a night vision scope, officers spotted a [...]
No information on involved units or specifics about the case.
Will update as information becomes available.
The United States intercepted a stolen boat carrying four Cuban illegal immigrants and has returned it and the crew to Cuba. Two Cuban security guards named Manuel Ramirez and Eduardo Puig, stationed at the nautical base of Tarara on the outskirts [...]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Marine Interdiction Agents thwarted two illegal immigration attempts at sea this past weekend, off the coast of San Diego.
In the first attempt on Saturday at about 3 a.m., CBP Marine Interdiction Agents on routine patrol about five miles off the coast of La Jolla spotted a vessel of [...]
The Coast Guard repatriated 323 Haitian migrants to Cap Haitien, Haiti after being interdicted during two separate cases since Friday. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Legare interdicted a grossly overloaded 40-foot sail freighter carrying 164 Haitian migrants about eight miles south of Great Inagua, Bahamas, Friday. The migrants were provided with life jackets [...]
Illicit drug trafficking and illegal immigration have recently surged along the so-called Smuggler’s Corridor, a stretch of Pacific coastal waters extending from Northern Baja California to Northern San Diego County beaches and bays. In four separate incidents during a recent three-day uptick in activity, some efforts by smugglers to bring narcotics and human cargo [...]
Sgt. Dan Keim with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit said law enforcement officers were conducting patrols early this morning near San Carlos Bay when they saw the suspicious vessel heading out from the Punta Rassa boat ramp. Keim said when authorities tried to stop the boat, the suspect then jumped from the [...]
Gaea Rich and her family were in full holiday mode aboard their yacht on the Fourth of July as they motored from Stamford, Conn., across Long Island Sound and into Oyster Bay, off the North Shore of Long Island. The trip, with more than 15 relatives and friends, was supposed to be the high point [...]
LA JOLLA — Seventeen illegal immigrants were arrested Monday after they were apparently dropped off by boat at Black’s Beach, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said.
A U.S. Coast Guard patrol spotted a panga boat heading to the beach about 12:30 a.m. and Border Patrol agents found the boat washed ashore a short time later.
After [...]
Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma interdicted an overcrowded sail freighter carrying 97 undocumented Haitian migrants in the Northern Caribbean Sea, on Wednesday, July 07, 2010. The 30-foot long, mahogany-hulled sail freighter constructed with handcrafted sails and rigging, reportedly departed Haiti en route an undisclosed destination. Among those embarked were 82 men and 15 women.
During the six [...]
Three weeks on that piece of styrofoam. Amazing he survived.
A Cuban man had apparently been drifting in the Caribbean Sea for more than three weeks aboard a homemade vessel made mostly of Styrofoam before U.S. authorities found him, officials said Tuesday.
U.S. Custom and Border Protection (CBP) agents spotted the vessel about 51 miles south of [...]
After a routine check on a boat by the Coast Guard, customs agents took custody of a Jamaican national, who told border patrol agents he was smuggled into the country years ago through Fort Lauderdale. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Steve McDonald said the charge of entering the country without inspection is administrative, not criminal, [...]
Looks like the West Coast is beginning to see the kind of action units in South Florida have been dealing with since before Cuban embargo. BZ for a successful interdiction.
More than 30 illegal immigrants were apprehended Tuesday morning after attempting to enter the country by boat, authorities said, including a group of 18 immigrants who [...]
Seven Cubans who set off by raft from the communist island hoping to reach the United States were intercepted and returned home on Tuesday, US Coast Guard officials said. The immigrants, traveling on a 13-foot raft 19 miles south of Key West, Florida were spotted by a passing ship, which reported them to US authorities.“The [...]
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Thieves are again targeting large, fast boats in Cape Coral, Florida, apparently for migrant smuggling operations. Two boats worth more than $800,000 were stolen from lifts at Cape Coral homes recently while the owners were away. At least two other large boats, capable of high speeds, were stolen in the city earlier this [...]
