15676: (Hermantin) Coast Guard returned illegal Haitians (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>

Coast Guard repatriates 101 Haitians, 25 Cubans
The Associated Press
Posted May 21 2003, 7:16 PM EDT

MIAMI -- The Coast Guard returned 126 illegal Haitian and Cuban migrants to
their homelands Wednesday, officials said.

A Coast Guard cutter found a dangerously overcrowded 35-foot sailboat with
101 Haitian migrants on Saturday 80 miles northwest of Great Inagua,
Bahamas. The migrants were taken on board the cutter, given food, water and
any necessary medical treatment and were returned Wednesday to Port au
Prince, Haiti.



Twenty-five Cuban migrants found in five separate cases since May 10 were
repatriated to Bahia de Cabanas, Cuba.

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