A total of 39 immigrants, whose nationality was not revealed, were detained in Aguadilla, a municipality on the northwest coast of Puerto Rico, the police of the Caribbean island reported Tuesday in a statement.
The statement indicates that at 6:00 p.m. on Monday (local time), about 12 nautical miles from the Martinique sector of Aguadilla, the FURA Maritime Unit of the Puerto Rico Police located a boat in which 39 people with immigration status were traveling. undefined, who were trying to arrive on the island irregularly.
The intervention was carried out during a preventive patrol operation, when a boat described as homemade, 31 feet (10 meters) long, with two outboard motors, was detected, in which a group made up of 5 women and 34 men, all of legal age.
The immigrants were handed over at sea to US Coast Guard troops, who took custody.
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