Immigration

Ten migrants from five countries come ashore in South Florida, Border Patrol says

A small cabin cruiser sits on the sands of Boynton Beach Friday morning, March 10, 2023. The U.S. Border Patrol says 10 people from five different countries were on the boat.
A small cabin cruiser sits on the sands of Boynton Beach Friday morning, March 10, 2023. The U.S. Border Patrol says 10 people from five different countries were on the boat. U.S. Border Patrol

The U.S. Border Patrol said 10 migrants from five countries came ashore Boynton Beach in a small cabin cruiser early Friday morning.

The agency said in a statement on Twitter that the people are from Guyana, Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Brazil.

“The investigation is ongoing,” Walter Slosar, chief patrol agent for Border Patrol’s Miami operations, said in the statement.

This report will be updated.

This story was originally published March 10, 2023 at 8:47 AM.

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David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware. 
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