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Hundreds of Haitian migrants arrive on boat in Florida Keys

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Hundreds of migrants from Haiti arrived in a picket boat off shore of an exclusive gated neighborhood in north Key Largo Sunday afternoon, according to authorities.

First reviews estimate among 150 and 200 men and women had been on board the vessel when it stopped in the shallow drinking water off Ocean Reef Club following 1 p.m., stated Adam Linhardt, spokesman for the Monroe County Sheriff’s Workplace.

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Dozens of Haitian migrants obtain on shore at Ocean Reef Club, a gated group in north Important Largo, Sunday, March 6, 2022. The individuals are section of a massive migrant group that arrived on a picket boat that day. Jason Rafter/FWC

A lot more than a hundred individuals on the boat swam to shore times following the vessel grounded, with some needing professional medical guidance, U.S. Customs and Border Security Main Agent Walter N. Slosar said Sunday night by way of Twitter.

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Haitian migrants are collected on a wood vessel that grounded off Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo Sunday, March 6, 2022. Officer Jason Rafter/FWC

U.S. Customs and Border Safety at first explained in a statement launched on Twitter that the landing was a “human smuggling occasion.” Officials, even so, now say it appears like a mass migration incident that does not involve smugglers, specified the form of vessel utilized.

“We’re not viewing any symptoms of smuggling,” said Nestor Yglesias, spokesman for Homeland Security Investigations, the agency that investigates human smuggling crimes.

Human smuggling usually involves the use of a speedboat or cabin cruiser to produce folks. On Sunday, the migrants loaded on to an ageing wood boat that from the appears to be of it experienced questionable seaworthiness.

Regulation enforcement sources say it doesn’t seem any of the persons who arrived are in require of serious professional medical focus.

This is the third huge group of migrants stopped involving Haiti and the United States in a 7 days, with an believed full of extra than 500 people today whom U.S. immigration officers have taken into custody. Two interdictions final week — on Sunday and Friday morning — resulted in 179 and 123 people today taken into custody respectively.

Those incidents occurred off two individual islands of the Bahamas.

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Haitian migrants are gathered on a wooden vessel that grounded off Ocean Reef Club in Essential Largo Sunday, March 6, 2022. Jason Rafter/FWC

The Ocean Reef location is also getting to be a common place for substantial teams of Haitian migrants to arrive in South Florida.

In January, 176 people ended up stopped around Ocean Reef.

On Xmas Eve, Border Patrol brokers took 52 persons from Haiti into custody immediately after they arrived by sailboat off a remote two-lane highway that leads to Ocean Reef identified as Card Sound Street. That landing came after 63 Haitian migrants landed in almost the same area on Card Sound Road, again in an overloaded sailboat.

This is a building tale and will be up-to-date when additional information and facts is out there.

Reporter Omar Rodríguez Ortiz contributed to this report.

This story was originally published March 6, 2022 4:11 PM.

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David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Right before becoming a member of the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Security Agency and the Department of Electrical power in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the College of Delaware.

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