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They were near a group of remote islands in the Bahamas that are a frequent stop for migrants headed toward South Florida. Coast Guard stops boat with 400 Haitians off the Bahamas and likely ...
Haitian voyages bound for Florida and Puerto Rico often turn deadly. In May 2022, 11 Haitian women drowned when their boat capsized near the U.S. territory. Since 2014, ...
The US Coast Guard cut off an “overloaded” boat packed with 132 Haitian migrants about 50 miles off the Florida coastline — and shipped them back home on Monday, officials said.
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Haitian boat people are refugees from Haiti who flee the country by boat, usually to South Florida [1] and sometimes the Bahamas. The first reports of refugees fleeing Haiti by boat to the United States began in 1972. [2] In the 1980 Mariel boatlift, many Haitian boat people joined the exodus from Cuba to take refuge in the United States. [3]
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 (91 ...
A large contingent of Haitians may be living in Miami undocumented. Haitian people seeking political asylum and/or economic opportunity have been steadily arriving in Florida shores since the early 1970s. Haitians have established themselves in the Edison/Little River area of Miami, which eventually came to be referred to as Little Haiti.
In 2000, Florida had 182,224 foreign-born Haitians, 43.5% of the total foreign-born population from Haiti in the United States (this number did not include U.S.-born citizens of Haitian heritage). New York had the second-largest population of foreign-born Haitians, with 125,475, approximately 30% of the total.