REPORT: Vacation hot spot used as ‘springboard’ for illegal aliens coming to US

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From Fox News: The renowned crystal-clear waters of the Bahamas act as a “springboard” for illegal immigration to South Florida, an expert said.

Fox News Digital spoke with retired Rear Adm. Peter Brown, former Homeland Security advisor to President Donald Trump, about illegal immigration from the Bahamas to Florida.

“Normally, when we think of maritime migration, we think about Haiti or Cuba, maybe the Dominican Republic, but the unknown in that equation is the Bahamas,” he said.

“The Bahamas presents a special case, not so much because Bahamians want to get to the U.S., although a few do, but because the Bahamas ends up being a springboard for others who want to reach the U.S.”

Brown explained that since the Bahamas consists of over 700 islands, and some are only 50 miles from the Florida coastline where there are many recreational boats, smuggler boats are much harder to detect.

To make matters worse, the Bahamas’ economy is so dependent on tourism they offer visa-free travel to citizens of 160 different countries around the world, Brown explained, adding that people come there from Russia, China, El Salvador, Guatemala, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Brazil, and many other countries.

In contrast, the U.S. allows people from only 40 countries to enter without a visa.

Brown also noted that Bahama’s military is in no way equipped to manage the flood of migrants coming through their country, although they do cooperate with the U.S. Coast Guard.

WATCH BELOW:

Based on data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, apprehensions through the Miami Sector and the Miami Field office during the Biden administration were as follows:

  • FY 2022:   27,443
  • FY 2023: 214,150
  • FY 2024: 268,810
  • FY 2024:     1,337.  (So far… this includes Oct. 2024 – February 2025)

Based on CBP data, the numbers suddenly started plummeting again just prior to the November election.

The data below represent apprehensions through the Miami Sector and the Miami Field Office only. Check out the HUGE INCREASE of illegal aliens that poured into Florida during the last two years of the Biden administration.

CBP does not specify how many of the illegal aliens apprehended in Miami came through the Bahamas, but they do provide data on their counties of origin.   The majority came from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

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