{"id":1595108,"date":"2022-08-08T16:49:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T20:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595108"},"modified":"2022-08-08T16:49:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T20:49:32","slug":"over-300-illegal-haitian-migrants-detained-trying-to-sail-to-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-300-illegal-haitian-migrants-detained-trying-to-sail-to-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 300 Illegal Haitian Migrants Detained Trying to Sail to U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fover-300-illegal-haitian-migrants-detained-trying-to-sail-to-u-s%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595108&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The Coast Guard and Border Patrol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/300-haitians-found-sailboat-grounded-floridas-key-largo-rcna41887\">apprehended<\/a> hundreds of Haitians attempting to enter the country illegally after finding their overcrowded sail boat <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USCGSoutheast\/status\/1556014603611537409\">stranded<\/a> off the shore of Key Largo Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol rescued 113 migrants who had abandoned the ship and the Coast Guard detained the remaining 220 who stayed on board. Migrants were taken to a nearby country club and given snacks, water, and dry clothes. Four migrants were treated at a nearby hospital for dehydration, with several others being treated on scene. A Border Patrol official told NBC that the operation was likely organized by smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>Human smugglers have made numerous attempts to traffic Haitians and other people from the Caribbean into the United States in the past year. During a similar incident last month, over 150 Haitian migrants were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2022\/07\/21\/sailboat-containing-at-least-100-migrants-intercepted-off-boca-chita-key\/\">captured<\/a>. A massive vessel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/world\/2022\/05\/25\/boat-with-reported-842-haitian-migrants-winds-up-in-cuba\/\">containing<\/a> 842 Haitians was headed for the United States in March, though ultimately ended up in Cuba. Between January and June, law enforcement has stopped roughly 40,000 Haitians from entering the country.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say political <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/2\/7\/haiti-faces-more-instability-as-moise-term-officially-ends\">instability<\/a> following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/statement-on-the-anniversary-of-haitian-president-jovenel-moises-assassination\/\">assassination<\/a> of Haitian president Jovenel Mo\u00efse last year is driving the exodus of migrants. As state capacity has continued to degrade in Haiti, gang violence has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/lac\/en\/press-releases\/rising-gang-violence-haiti-now-is-targeting-children-unicef-warns\">worsened<\/a> with women and children often becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/05\/26\/1101568190\/haitians-face-horrifying-violence-as-gangs-run-out-of-local-authorities-control\">targets<\/a> of violence.<\/p>\n<p>As illegal entries soared at the southern border last year, the Biden administration reinstated former president Trump\u2019s &#8220;Remain in Mexico&#8221; policy\u00a0<span>following a court order<\/span>. Despite this, Biden still advocates a pathway to citizenship for individuals residing in the United States illegally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last two days alone in the Florida Keys we\u2019ve responded to 16 different migrant landings,&#8221; a Border Patrol official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The smugglers have no regard for migrants or their lives,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The more migrants they put onboard their boat, the more money they make.&#8221; Thousands of migrants have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/usa-immigration-border-deaths\/\">died<\/a> attempting to cross the border since Biden took office, with smugglers being involved in many of those deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that those who attempted to enter the country illegally will be transferred into the &#8220;immigration process.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coast Guard and Border Patrol apprehended hundreds of Haitians attempting to enter the country illegally after finding their overcrowded sail boat stranded off the shore of Key Largo Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}