Homeland security at it's best.!!!

[wingman]

Migrant boat arrivals in Key West raise security concerns


KEY WEST, Florida (AP) -- Six Cuban migrants landed their homemade boat on guarded U.S. Navy property this week, then wandered this city's downtown streets before authorities caught them, officials said.

After beaching the boat Wednesday, they sprinted past the house of the Navy's top officer in the Keys and scaled a fence, U.S. officials said Friday. Police later found them drinking beer and phoning relatives on a busy street.

Naval authorities were alerted to the boat by an off-duty Navy police officer, said Cmdr. Pete Fyles, executive officer of Key West Naval Air Facility. The officer was fishing on another vessel when he saw the boat head toward Navy property.

Cameron Hintzen, a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman, said the Cubans claimed they had departed from Mariel on Cuba's north coast less than a day before their arrival in Key West.

The migrants' names have not been released. Border Patrol and Navy officials did not return phone messages Saturday seeking further comment.

 

[Selfdfenz]

Well, we can all sleep well knowing the OHS is on the job, standing on the wall, keeping us safe. And down on the TX line about a thousand came across that didn't get caught and no one in the US gov gives a hoot in H-ll.

Funny that the Cubans never seem to have a half a dozen boxes of good cigars in their possession when caught. That alone might make me reconsider our policy toward illegal CUBAN refugees. Would have paid for the beer and phone calls.

S-

 

[hammer4nc]

I'd love to be privy to the inside navy chatter connected to this incident! Here's the homemade boat that foiled naval defenses (they stuck a nissan car motor on an old fishing hull):

On top of the defection of the 4 cuban coast guardsmen recently, who drove their patrol boat to a hotel dock undetected, is it possible that cuban "pies secos" are not too high on the security threat assessment, right about now?

 

[Blackhawk]

On top of the defection of the 4 cuban coast guardsmen recently, who drove their patrol boat to a hotel dock undetected, is it possible that cuban "pies secos" are not too high on the security threat assessment, right about now?

Yep.

 

[seeker_two]

Now, if they'd been HATIANS, they'd have NEVER been found...:banghead:

 

[Baba Louie]

Meanwhile, little old ladies, curvacious blondes and middle aged WASP's are still getting frisked and de-shod at the airports here in the homeland.

I feel SO good (read safe and secure) about it all.

Adios