MIAMI — A U.S. Coast Guard cutter returned 89 people to Haiti on Tuesday who were stopped at sea days earlier aboard an overloaded sailboat off the southeastern coast of Cuba.
The group of men, women and children are part of an ongoing migrant surge from both Haiti and Cuba to South Florida that has been keeping the Coast Guard, Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations units busy in the region for more than a year.
In just over a month, the U.S. Coast Guard has interdicted more Haitians at sea than it did in the last fiscal year when 1,527 were returned to Haiti.
