Administration offers nonsensical explanation for why Hurricane Dorian survivors without visas were told to disembark a Florida-bound ferry on Sunday
Hurricane Dorian may not have hit the U.S. East Coast as hard as many feared, but it decimated the Bahamas, leaving tens of thousands homeless. On Sunday, over 100 of the displaced were instructed to disembark a rescue ferry bound for Florida because they didn’t possess U.S. visas. Customs and Border Protection has been unable to offer an adequate explanation for why this happened, as visas are not required for Bahamians traveling to the U.S.
Big problems on the ferry from Freeport to Florida — announcement just made that any Bahamian without a visa must now get off. This is not normal. Nornally Bahamians can travel to USA with passport and a printout of their police record. This is a mess. pic.twitter.com/DESUm2qBGEStory continuesCBP officials in Florida blamed the ferry company, Balearia. “If they worked with us, we would have been there to facilitate that process,” an official told Entin.
Then, in another version of the story, a CBP spokesperson told Newsweek on Monday that the agency had informed Balearia it needed to transport evacuees to Nassau in order to obtain visas before continuing to the United States. A different CBP spokesperson later told Rolling Stone that this was correct and that operators were being advised to coordinate with the U.S. and Bahamian governments.
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