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| News Release |
Date: June 12, 2009 Contact: Ricardo Castrodad 787-510-7923 |
| Coast Guard, Dominican Republic Navy Shiprider repatriate 11 Dominicans to La |
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The migrants were interdicted at-sea by Caribbean Border Interagency law enforcement authorities Thursday. The crew of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection fixed-wing aircraft located a migrant vessel Thursday morning, while patrolling waters approximately 42 nautical miles north of The migrants were traveling illegally to Puerto Rico from the Coast Guard Sector San Juan controllers diverted the Coast Guard Cutter Matinicus and an Air Station Borinquen HH-65 Dolphin helicopter to interdict the yola. The crew of the Matinicus, operating with a Dominican Republic Navy Shiprider onboard, interdicted the migrant vessel and safely embarked eight men and three women. Once onboard the cutter, the crew of the Matinicus collected the biographic information, including digital fingerprints and facial photographs from the interdicted migrants. The crew of the Matinicus repatriated all 11 migrants at 2 p.m. Friday, when they turned custody over to Dominican Republic Naval authorities in La Romana, The concept of CBIG resulted from a March 2006 collaboration of local Homeland Security components that effectively stemmed the increased flow of traffic across the Mona Passage between the Coast Guard Cutter Matinicus is a 110-foot patrol boat home ported in |
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