MIAMI (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard officials say roughly 9,800 people from Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic attempted to migrate illegally to the U.S. by sea in the last fiscal year.
Tuesday marked the end of fiscal year 2014. According to Coast Guard officials in Miami, 3,722 Cubans, 5,478 Haitians and 601 Dominicans were caught by U.S. authorities in the Florida Straits, the Caribbean and the Atlantic.
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