PUERO RICO: The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says its agents apprehended 10 undocumented Cuban and Dominican Republic immigrants after they landed on a remote island off the coast of Puerto Rico.
The US Coast Guard also found a body floating near the shore of Mona Island.
The CBP said park rangers from the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources contacted the Ramey Border Patrol Station indicating that a group of 10 undocumented migrants, consisting of six men, two women and a three year old boy from Cuba and a man from the Dominican Republic, had reached the outpost located on Mona Island.
Migrants said they arrived on a vessel from the Dominican Republic, and during the journey one man disappeared.
The United States Coast Guard was notified and a search and rescue operation was initiated, and they later located the body of the man. The body was later taken to the Port of Mayaguez by officers from the Homicide Division of the Police of Puerto Rico.
Illegal immigrants smuggled in Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic are ordinarily transported in rustic, homemade wooden vessels, commonly referred to as “yolas”.
