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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 ...
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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A migrant sailboat overloaded with people from Haiti arrived in the shallow waters Monday evening off the Middle Florida Keys, federal officials said.
A group of Florida-bound migrants, including almost 50 children, who reached the Florida Keys in a rickety sailboat from Haiti on Monday, resulting in a frantic federal, state and local rescue ...
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]
Near the center, the bridge rises in an arc to provide 65-foot (20 m)-high clearance for boat passage. The remainder of the bridge is considerably closer to the water surface. The new bridge does not cross Pigeon Key. The total length of the new bridge is actually 35,862 ft (10,931 m) or 6.79 miles (10.93 km), and is shorter than the original.
With gangs in control of key ports and the largest airport, it has been difficult for most Haitians to leave, Jozef said. DHS also said the number of undocumented migrants coming to the U.S ...