The US Coast Guard has detained a boat carrying 396 Haitian migrants near the Bahamas in one of The biggest human trafficking incidents in The region officials from the Bahamas said.
The migrants were detained near the remote island of Cay Sal, located between Florida and Cuba, according to immigration officials in Bahamas said in Sunday statement.
They said that the immigrants would be processed on Bahamas Island of Inagua and later returned home.
Nicole Groll, a spokeswoman for the US Coast Guard, told The Associated Press on Monday that the ban occurred on Saturday afternoon and involved a 50-foot boat.
“It was very overloaded and very unsafe,” she said.
No further details were immediately disclosed available.
thousands of Haitians flee from a spike in Gang violence and deepening political instability in country currently It has no democratization elected institutions.
Many travel to the Bahamas and other nearby islands in Hopes of I eventually got to Florida. Excursions are often deadly and with Migrants crammed into makeshift boats that capsized in recent months.
Immigration comes with management of US President Joe Biden recently announced that it will be start Transformation back Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans on the Texas border who arrive Illegally.
The administration is now offering parole on humanitarian grounds for 30,000 people a month of these countries If they insure a financial sponsor, app online and pay their fare.
