The U.S. Coast Guard has just captured a 50ft boat that contained over 400 Haitian illegal immigrants onboard.
The boat was detained off the coast of the Bahamas and per Bahamian officials, it’s one of the biggest human smuggling busts in the Bahamas ever.
US Coast Guard officials stated the boat was “grossly overloaded and very much unsafe”.
Bahamian officials will now send the Haitian migrants back to Haiti.
Just look at how packed that boat was:
🚨 HAPPENING NOW: US Coast Guard intercepts sailing vessel from Haiti carrying 390 migrants.
Authorities to transfer the migrants to The Bahamas. pic.twitter.com/9IRAsYi1MO
— Upward News (@UpwardNewsHQ) January 23, 2023
Fox News reported more on the story:
The U.S. Coast Guard detained a 50-foot boat crammed with nearly 400 Haitian migrants near the Bahamas on Saturday in what Bahamian officials described as one of the…
