Authorities intercepted a group of Haitian immigrants aboard a rustic sailing ship on Saturday afternoon off the coast of Key Largo, Florida.
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Border patrol took 113 Haitian migrants into custody after their sailing-vessel ran aground off the coast of Florida Saturday afternoon., near the gated community of Ocean Reef, officials said. Rescue crews transferred the people from the grounded vessel to Coast Guard ships, with some entering the water without life jackets and needed to be rescued by crew members.
Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar, who heads the agency’s Miami sector, said in a Twitter post that agents are working to"safe, clean, fed and healthy and identify exactly who they are and what they may or may not have wrong with them."
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