MIAMI — A Maine-based Coast Guard cutter has returned 125 Haitians to their island country.
A Coast Guard air crew spotted the overloaded sail freighter this week and directed the Reliance to intercept the vessel. The Coast Guard crew distributed life jackets to the Haitians, took them aboard and provided them with food, water, shelter and basic medical attention.
Coast Guard Capt. Eduardo Pino says lives were placed needlessly at risk when the overloaded vessel left Haiti with little or no safety gear.
The 125 migrants were returned to Cap Haitien, Haiti, on Thursday. The 210-foot Reliance is homeported in Kittery.
I’m not sure that I am reading this right. The Reliance is homeported in Kittery, so it was an American vessel that was transporting illegal immigrants? So what happens to the captain, crew and ship? Do they go to jail and the ship gets sold and the money goes to payback what it cost the U.S. taxpayer to return these Haitians to their home? Or, what?
You should read the article again!
Here’s the way American law works. If you’re from the next island over, Cuba, and get a toe onto the beach in the U.S., it’s bienvenidos amigos, here, have a green card. But if you’re from Haiti and black, get back, get back, get back. Wonderful immigration policy made by CONgress.
back to your mud pies! :(