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US Coast Guard repatriates 149 Haitians, Cubans

 
A crowd gathers as the Coast Guard Cutter Resolute, a 210-foot Reliance Class Cutter homeported in St. Petersburg, returns home from deployment, Oct. 13, 2011. This week, Resolute was back in the Caribbean repatriating Haitians intercepted at sea.
A crowd gathers as the Coast Guard Cutter Resolute, a 210-foot Reliance Class Cutter homeported in St. Petersburg, returns home from deployment, Oct. 13, 2011. This week, Resolute was back in the Caribbean repatriating Haitians intercepted at sea.
COAST GUARD

The U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday it had returned almost 150 migrants to their Caribbean homelands after intercepting their boats at sea.

A total of 112 Haitian migrants were returned to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, on Friday.

A Coast Guard crew on the St. Petersburg based Cutter Resolute, conducting a routine patrol in the Caribbean, discovered their sail freighter west of Great Inagua, Bahamas.

The vessel was “grossly overloaded” with 87 men, 19 women and six children, according to Coast Guard Capt. Brendan McPherson, 7th Coast Guard District chief of enforcement. The migrants were given life jackets and transferred to the Coast Guard cutter.

The Coast Guard says it also returned eight Cuban migrants Wednesday and 29 Cuban migrants Friday to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba. Officials say the migrants were picked up at sea in two separate incidents.

All the migrants received food, water and medical care aboard Coast Guard vessels before being repatriated.

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