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Article: New smuggling route.(BRITISH VIRGIN I.)
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- Caribbean Update
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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The British Virgin Islands--comprised of the main islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda and Anegada, as well as more than 50 smaller islands--are increasingly attractive to Caribbean smugglers carrying illegal migrants to the nearby U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, reports AP (April 3, 2007):
Cubans are the elite migrants because unlike all the others, the US "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy allows them to avoid deportation and request asylum if they can reach US soil. They've discovered that the Virgin Islands corridor provides a practical alternative to the heavily guarded Florida Straits or the rough Mona Passage between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, which ...
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