Monday, September 21, 2020
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Coast Guard Winslow Griesser (WPC-1116) repatriated 36 of the 38 migrants to a military ship in the Dominican Republic on September 19, following a September 17 ban on illegal migrants in the waters of the Mona crossing south of Mona Island. Puerto Rico.
Two women from the organization of migrants in need of medical care on the ground were evacuated and taken to a local hospital in Puerto Rico. During the ban, winslow Griesser’s team also seized seven kilograms of cocaine, estimated at more than $154,000.
The ban is the result of ongoing efforts by various agencies in Operation Caribbean Guard and the CBIG Caribbean Border Inter-Agency Group, and the Caribbean Corridor Strike Force.
“The professionalism and skills of the crew, our spouse agencies and the Dominican Republic’s military allies have led to an elegant ban and the safe recovery and repatriation of migrants,” said Lt. Joel Wyman, commander of the Winslow Griesser cutter. 38 lives were in great danger, their makeshift boat was seriously overloaded, they had little or no apparatus to save lives on board and they were drinking water. The result may have been simply tragic. “
The ban reached a regime patrol on Thursday morning, when the team of a dash-8 maritime patrol aircraft from the US Customs and Border Protection Office was in the process of being able to do so. But it’s not the first time He detected an illegal immigration adventure about 20 nautical miles south of Puerto Rico’s Mona Island.
The migrant organization was travelling on a makeshift 30-foot boat with 35 men and 3 women, who claimed the Dominican city. The Winslow Griesser cutter team safely approached migrants for protection reasons as the sending of migrants took water and accumulated more than 4 inches of water inside.
Once aboard a Coast Guard ship, all migrants obtained food, water, shelter and critical medical care. During the ban, Members of the Coast Guard team received non-public protective devices to minimize possible exposure to any imaginable instance of COVID-19. migrants in such cases reported symptoms similar to COVID-19.
Cutter Winslow Griesser transported the migrants to the territorial waters of the Dominican Republic off Punta Cana, where he encountered a Ship of the Dominican Republic Navy, which won over returning migrants.
The Winslow Griesser cutter is a 154-foot quick-response cutter used in San Juan, Puerto Rico.