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The U.S. Coast Guard has detained a 50-foot boat crammed with nearly 400 Haitian migrants near the Bahamas.

Florida's governor has declared a state of emergency and is now bringing in the Florida National Guard to address the migrant crisis.

The Homeland Security Task Force - Southeast said they have stopped or removed more than 1,300 refugees at sea or from Dry Tortugas National Park and other areas of the Florida Keys since Dec. 30 and urged family members of Cubans and Haitians thinking of making their way to the U.S. to dissuade such efforts.

The Homeland Security Task Force - Southeast said they have stopped or removed more than 1,300 refugees at sea or from Dry Tortugas National Park and other areas of the Florida Keys since Dec. 30 and urged family members of Cubans and Haitians thinking of making their way to the U.S. to dissuade such efforts.

Over the past 10 years, traversing the U.S.–Mexico border illegally has become increasingly dangerous for would-be immigrants. Illegal immigrants face kidnapping, murder, and rape at the hands of violent drug cartels and ever more ruthless human smugglers. Crossing treacherous desert areas exposes the travelers to heat exhaustion and dehydration. Hundreds of people die every year trying to cross the border into the U.S. However, illegal immigration is dangerous not only to the illegal immigran...

Coast Guard crew makes $8.8M drug bust while training Sailors return home safely to Naval Station Mayport Alex Rodriguez, Associate Producer Tags:  US Coast Guard Cutter Valiant docked at Mayport. (U.S. Coast Guard) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Over 520 pounds of cocaine was seized after a United States Coast crew intercepted a 16-foot go-fast style boat in the Caribbean Sea. The crew completed their 26-day patrol Tuesday and returned home to Naval Station Mayport. USCGC Valiant patrolled over 4,600...

Once we found it, it was farther to the north. so once you have a center found, then you base the track on that, and so the track has moved, away pretty much from what was a couple of days ago, hispaniola, hoping the mountains would break it down. and then towards the mona pass in between puerto rico and the dominican republic and kept moving to the east. then we thought the landfall would be on puerto rico, an hour and a half ago, the center was over saint thomas. currently, the center is 60 mi...