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Article: 44 CUBANS, FOUR HAITIANS ARRESTED BY IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT IN PUERTO RICO, UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS FOR ILLEGALLY ENTERING U.S.
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 6, 2006
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following press release:
Forty-eight aliens from Cuba and Haiti who illegally entered the United States were arrested here and St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands (USVI) today by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents.
The group arrested in Culebra, a small island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, consisted of 20 Cuban nationals (19 males and one female) and four Haitians (three females and one male). The were spotted by Puerto Rico Police Department police officers as they tried to beach the fragile boat in which they allegedly traveled from St. Maarten, ...