TURKS AND CAICOS ISLAND DETAINED 84 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TRYING TO REACH ON BOAT WHICH INCLUDES 15 WOMEN AND 69 MEN AND ALL WERE REPATRIATED SIMILARLY LAST WEEK 114 PEOPLE WERE DETAINED AS THEY ARE RISKING THEIR LIFE Sun, Apr 13, 2014 A SECOND sloop was detected in TCI waters in the space of one week on Sunday evening (April 6). In a press release Minister of Border Control and Labour Ricardo Don Hue Gardner explained that the boat was first detected at 11.53pm on Sunday evening. Marine police towed the handcrafted wooden vessel to South Dock and the 84 passengers - 15 women and 69 men - were all detained and repatriated. Last week 114 people were taken into detention when they arrived illegally in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Marine police intercepted a Haitian sloop overloaded with passengers on Monday, March 31, as it sailed about ten miles from Providenciales. They towed the wooden boat to South Dock where immigration officials detained all of the immigrants and escorted them to the nearby detention centre. Governor Peter Beckingham told press: It is very sad that illegal immigrants are still putting themselves in peril to try and reach the shores of the Turks and Caicos Islands in this way.” He went on to encourage the Haitian authorities to do all that they can to stop this dangerous and illegal trade”. It is exacting too high a price in Haitian lives and TCI public spending.”
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 04:55:42 +0000
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