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Six Jamaicans among boatload of immigrants held in Florida
CMC
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
MIAMI, CMC – United States law enforcement officials said citizens from two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries face deportation after they were apprehended when a boatload of people landed illegally at a beach in Fort Lauderdale on Monday night.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said that while it is possible that some of the migrants may have evaded arrest, those detained came from Haiti, Jamaica and Sri Lanka.
Without identifying those detained by name, ICE said that four were from Haiti and six from Jamaica.
Nicole Navas, an ICE spokeswoman, said officials discovered about $11,000 in American and Bahamian currency on the boat and that most of the migrants were smuggled into Florida “from the Bahamas”.
US federal agents using helicopters are searching for the migrants who fled after the boat landed on the beach.
CMC
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
MIAMI, CMC – United States law enforcement officials said citizens from two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries face deportation after they were apprehended when a boatload of people landed illegally at a beach in Fort Lauderdale on Monday night.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said that while it is possible that some of the migrants may have evaded arrest, those detained came from Haiti, Jamaica and Sri Lanka.
Without identifying those detained by name, ICE said that four were from Haiti and six from Jamaica.
Nicole Navas, an ICE spokeswoman, said officials discovered about $11,000 in American and Bahamian currency on the boat and that most of the migrants were smuggled into Florida “from the Bahamas”.
US federal agents using helicopters are searching for the migrants who fled after the boat landed on the beach.
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