After a four-week lull, the Bahamian Immigration Department, resumed its checks, in search of illegal migrants and arrested this week in the Freeport region and Eight Mile Rock, 11 foreign nationals including 8 Haitians (7 men and one woman), 2 Brazilians and one Jamaican woman, said Napthali Cooper, Immigration Spokesperson.

The spokesperson indicated that the 8 Haitian nationals had no legal status in the Bahamas, that they had entered illegally by boat and remained without authorization in the Bahamas.

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