A U.S. Border Patrol official said 113 jumped ship and were taken into custody; the estimated 220 who remained were in the custody of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Hundreds of Haitian and Cuban migrants using 16 different vessels were taken into custody after making landfall or reaching the US coast off Florida from Friday to Saturday, US Customs and Border Patrol said.
More than 300 Haitian migrants landed in a vessel near Key Largo off of Ocean Reef on Saturday at approximately 4:30 p.m. according to the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol Miami sector. United States Border Patrol Miami sector took 113 Haitian migrants who jumped off the boat into custody, Chief Patr…
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