Wednesday November 17 around 9:00 a.m., 61 illegal Haitian migrants arrived aboard a sailboat on the shores of a small isolated residential area off "Card Sound Road" (North Key Largo - Florida)

Alerted, border patrol agents as well as Florida state and federal partners responded to the scene and 61 Haitian migrants were arrested and placed in federal custody.

However, there may be other migrants that officers did not immediately catch, Chief Patrol Officer Thomas G. Martin said.

Federal agents were still at the scene as of Wednesday evening.

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