What type of boats do illegal immigrants travel in?
As in rowing boats, boats with a motor etc…
Ok but say they make a long journey? Which would be the most common? The journey I am thinking of is between Haiti and America, which is about 600 miles..
anything that floats
any of them
they dont care
wasnt elian gonzalez in some type of row boat or rubber raft?? anyways, they will use pretty much anything that floats to get over here, which is pretty ridiculous due to the terrible storms that happen in the gulf and atlantic ocean.. alot of them end up dying. i guess they’re pretty desperate!
here in florida, they have been comming in on 30 – 35′ foot high performance open deck fishing boats. Recent busts have revealed that these boats are stolen from boat yards and private residences by human traffickers and then run to Cuba to pick up people.
Most haitian immigrants don’t have the money to buy a trip on a human trafficker’s vessel. Many of the boats are small sail-powered fishing vessels, and not equipped or outfitted with enough supplies to make the trip. Cubans don’t have to make it across; they just have to make it off the shore… so they’ll strap some empty barrels on a truck and weld a propeller onto the driveshaft if they have to. Our CG picks them up as political refugees and takes them to Florida. Haitians get picked up and sent back.
We (WMEC 902) picked up 40 Haitians off one of our 110s in the summer of ’01 and took them back to Port-au-Prince. They had been lost, adrift, and without food for days before being picked up. It was a sad sight, to say the least.