The US Coast Guard delivered this Wednesday to the Dominican authorities 76 citizens of that country and three Venezuelans who were intercepted when they tried to arrive illegally in three boats to Puerto Rico.
The migrants were handed over by patrolman Joseph Napier to a Dominican Republic Navy ship off Punta Cana, according to the Coast Guard statement.
The first of the intercepted vessels was detected by a Customs and Border Protection multipurpose aircraft approximately 80 nautical miles northwest of the Puerto Rican town of Aguadilla .
Hours later, and also northwest of the coast of Aguadilla, two other suspicious vessels were sighted and they were arrested, indicated the coast guard.
Between October 1 of 2021 and 30 June 2022, Coast Guard era carried out 72 interdictions in the so-called Mona Canal, which separates the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
During At that time, the authorities detained 1,919 people, of which 1,414 were Dominicans, 404 Haitians and 52 Venezuelans, among others.
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