Five people of unknown immigration status were detained by the Puerto Rican authorities in the early hours of this Friday after illegally arriving on the island, reported the local Police.
The landing was on Los Tubes in Manatí, a municipality on the north coast of Puerto Rico, detailed the local authorities in a statement.
There, a vessel of 23 feet (7 meters) in length, light blue and white, with a single outboard motor.
In the same time that the five people with undefined immigration status arrived, the authorities indicated.
The migrants will be handed over to the staff of the Office of the Border Patrol (CBP, in English) in Puerto Rico for their deportation, informed the local Police.
This is the first intervention of the local authorities on immigrants who try to enter Puerto Rico since On September 5, a man and a woman were They were detained along with an undetermined group of people along the northwest coast of the island.
The two migrants were arrested in the Martinica beach in Aguadilla by personnel from the Maritime Unit of the United Rapid Action Forces of Aguadilla, attached to the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, local authorities preliminarily indicated.
The man and the woman arrived on the island in a boat 24 feet (8 meters) in length, with two outboard motors.
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–Five migrants were detained trying to enter Puerto Rico illegally
–76 Dominican migrants and 3 Venezuelans were detained in Puerto Rico waters
–At least 10 migrants were detained in Puerto Rico for entering with an “undefined status”