Isla Mujeres, Q.R. — Seven men of Cuban nationality remain in the National Institute of Migration (INM) custody after being found aboard a small vessel Saturday.
The Mexican Navy reported making the rescue north of Isla Mujeres earlier that morning after receiving a report in the Command and Control Room of the Ninth Naval Region.
Navy personnel were alerted to a small boat carrying seven men heading for the island. Mexican marina personnel set out in search of the boat, locating it in rocks along the north part of the island.
Those on board were transferred onto a Navy vessel and brought to port where they have since been turned over to Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) officials.
“They were transferred aboard a Defender-type vessel from the Naval Station for Search, Rescue and Maritime Surveillance (ENSAR) of Isla Mujeres to the Naval Station of Puerto Juárez where they were made available to authorities of the National Institute of Migration and International Health in order to carry out the corresponding legal procedures during their stay in national territory,” the Navy reported in a statement.
