Jeffrey Francois, one of the passengers, told WPLG-TV that the boat was in the ocean for nine days and that the passengers feared their imminent demise on two separate occasions because of the terrible conditions on the boat and in the sea.
“The migrants were crammed in both decks. There is a lower deck where they were crammed in and they reported the water was horrible. The conditions at sea were terrible,” Adam Hoffner, an official with Customs and Border Protection’s Miami Sector, told Miami NBC affiliate WTVJ-TV.
“It was crazy. It almost capsized and they all jumped off and started swimming into the land,” Michael Diaz, a witness, told WPLG-TV. In another Twitter thread, CBP Miami Sector Chief Patrol Agent Walter Slosar posted videos of the scene.
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