A wooden sail freighter ran aground with more than 100 migrants on Monday near the Florida Keys. The U.S. Border Patrol announced on Friday that one of the 109 detained was a registered sex offender.
The group that federal agents held in Marathon included children and women. According to Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar, the man was convicted of kidnapping and sexually abusing a child.
Immigration authorities determined the migrants were from Haiti, where gang warfare amid political instability is fueling a humanitarian crisis in the already impoverished country.
The migrants’ desperation hit the posh Ocean Reef Country Club, a private community in Key Largo when another crowded wooden sail freighter ran aground on Aug. 6.
Federal agents reported detaining 113 Haitian migrants who had been aboard.
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The group that federal agents held in Marathon included children and women. According to Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar, the man was convicted of kidnapping and sexually abusing a child.
Immigration authorities determined the migrants were from Haiti, where gang warfare amid political instability is fueling a humanitarian crisis in the already impoverished country.
The migrants’ desperation hit the posh Ocean Reef Country Club, a private community in Key Largo when another crowded wooden sail freighter ran aground on Aug. 6.
Federal agents reported detaining 113 Haitian migrants who had been aboard.
Continue reading...