Article: Smuggler abandons 34 undocumented migrants on remote cay in British Virgin Islands, claiming it was U.S. soil

MAT PROBASCO, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-19-2005
Dateline: CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands
A smuggler abandoned 34 undocumented migrants on a tiny, uninhabited cay in the British Virgin Islands, claiming it was U.S. soil, police said Tuesday.

The 29 Haitians, three Sri Lankans and two Dominican Republic nationals paid a boat captain to travel from St. Martin, a French Caribbean territory, to the U.S. Virgin Islands, police spokeswoman Tamara Archibald-Gill said.

The boat captain left them on Prickly Pear Island on Sunday, telling the group that it was St. Thomas, the main island in thted.

The migrants, including two toddlers aged 20 months and 2 1/2 years and ...

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