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Caribbean-Latin America
Coast Guard Stops Migrants Near P.R.
2004-04-07
The U.S. Coast Guard detained 35 Dominican and Peruvian migrants trying to reach Puerto Rico on Tuesday, officials said. A police boat stopped a yawl with 38 people on board, but three jumped overboard and swam three miles to shore, Coast Guard Lt. Eric Willis said.
Swam the three miles? Does PR have an Olympic swim team?
Some of the migrants told officials the three men who jumped overboard were in charge of smuggling them from the Dominican Republic.
Ah, I get it now, they're sharks. Three miles, no problem, just catch the old scent of money in the water.
Police handed the 35 migrants to the Coast Guard and they will be repatriated, officials said. The Coast Guard has intercepted 3,052 Dominican migrants since January, already more than double the 1,469 for all 2003.
Posted by:Steve White

#7  Shamu, you open your mouth and I'll power wash your teeth with 100 psi of algified, straight stream, Geauga Lake H2O. Homey don't play that pet the tongue gag.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-04-07 10:41:29 PM  

#6  Geez, this Super Hose is on top of the game.

Private to SH
No hard feeling.... come see me.
Posted by: Shamu   2004-04-07 7:52:14 PM  

#5  I speculate that PR was just a rest stop on the way to another destination.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-04-07 2:22:15 PM  

#4  actualy its not pc. migrant is part of the words immigrant and emigrant wether illegal or legal. they all migrants.
Posted by: muck4doo   2004-04-07 1:52:51 PM  

#3  Migrants are people who move around within a country. Illegal Immigrants are people who move from one country to another without documentation.

This P.C.-ization of the English language just kills me.
Posted by: Parabellum   2004-04-07 8:05:14 AM  

#2  Yall are kidding, right? I did the 1 mile and 5 mile swims when I was a kid in the Boy Scouts - Lake Texarkanna - in consecutive summers. Merit badges, man, a 11 / 12 yr old's sex drive. heh.
Posted by: .com   2004-04-07 12:51:24 AM  

#1  3 miles my ass. it's hard enough swimming 250 yards to qualify for scuba diving.
Posted by: mr.bill   2004-04-07 12:43:33 AM  

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