WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard issued the following news release:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Winslow Griesser and two Dominican Republic Navy vessels rescued 61 alien migrants Monday morning from a grossly overloaded, sinking vessel in Atlantic Ocean waters off Dominican Republic.
All migrants aboard the sinking vessel were successfully rescued and transferred to Dominican Republic Navy rescue assets on-scene, their nationalities are yet to be determined.
"Thanks to the rapid response of the Coast Guard and Dominican Republic Navy rescue crews, 61 lives were saved from an overloaded, sinking vessel," said Cmdr. Matthew Romano, Sector San Juan chief of resp...