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The crew of the USCGC Campbell (WMEC 909) interdicts an overloaded Haitian sail freighter carrying 219 people, April 7, 2023, in the South Florida Straits. While underway in the Seventh Coast Guard District’s area of responsibility, Campbell’s crew conducted maritime safety and security missions while working to detect, deter and intercept unsafe and illegal maritime migration ventures bound for the United States. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Riley Perkofski)

May 13, 2023

USCGC Campbell returns home following 59-day multi-mission patrol in the Florida Straits and Windward Passage

NEWPORT, R.I. — The crew of the USCGC Campbell (WMEC 909) returned to their home port in Newport, Saturday, following a 59-day patrol to the South Florida Straits and Windward Passage.

Crews aboard Coast Guard Cutter Manowar receive 18 migrants from Coast Guard Cutter Richard Etheridge April 11, 2023, after being interdicted approximately 28 miles off the coast of Fort Pierce Inlet, Florida. The migrants were repatriated to their country of departure, Freeport, Bahamas. (U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo)

May 13, 2023

Coast Guard repatriates, transfers 68 people to Cuba, Bahamas

MIAMI — Coast Guard crews repatriated 50 people to Cuba and transferred 18 people to the Bahamas, following three interdictions off the coasts of Florida and Bahamas, in the past week. “The Coast Guard and our federal partners maintain a continual presence with air and sea assets in the Florida Straits and Caribbean Sea,” said Lt. Connor Ives, Coast Guard District 7 response enforcement officer. “People attempting to migrate illegally into the U.S., will be interdicted, repatriated, or sent back to the country of origin.”

May 12, 2023

PHOTOS AVAILABLE: Coast Guard, tugboat crew rescue 2 from capsized boat near Freeport, Texas

PHOTOS AVAILABLE: The Coast Guard and a tugboat crew rescued two boaters whose vessel capsized near Freeport, Texas, Friday.

Don't take to the sea. You are putting your life at risk.

May 12, 2023

Title 42 termination does not alter maritime migration policies

MIAMI — The termination of Title 42 public health order does not alter the maritime migration policies, and the U.S. maritime borders remain closed. Title 42 never applied to migrants interdicted at sea. The Task Force is monitoring the situation to ensure misinformation among diaspora communities or disinformation spread by human smugglers does not encourage increased attempts to reach the United States by sea.

May 11, 2023

Coast Guard Academy Commencement 2023 Media Advisory

New London, Conn — DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will deliver the keynote address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's 142nd commencement exercises at Cadet Memorial Field on Wednesday, May 17, at 11 a.m.

May 11, 2023

Coast Guard suspends search for 3 after plane crash near San Clemente Island

The Coast Guard has suspended its active search for three people after a report of an aircraft emergency and a debris field was located approximately one mile southwest of San Clemente Island, Wednesday morning. The U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection all provided search assets and searched a combined 334 square miles in the vicinity of the downed Phoenix Air Learjet with negative results.

A USCGC Thetis (WMEC 910) boarding team departs via small boat with CG-P6 dewatering pumps and jugs of drinking water to provide rescue assistance to a Haitian sailing vessel taking on water off the coast of Ile de la Tortue, Haiti, March 14, 2023. While patrolling off the coast of Haiti, Thetis watch standers spotted sailors aboard a Haitian sailboat waving their arms indicating distress. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Elijah De La Torre)

May 11, 2023

USCGC Thetis returns home following 66-day multi-mission Caribbean Sea patrol

KEY WEST, Fla. – The crew of the USCGC Thetis (WMEC 910) returned to their home port in Key West, Thursday, following a 66-day patrol in the Florida Straits and Caribbean Sea.

May 10, 2023

Coast Guard Humboldt Bay conducts 2 separate medevacs in 1 day

McKinleyville, Calif. — Coast Guard helicopter aircrews medically evacuated two people during two separate search and rescue cases off the Northern California coast on Monday.

May 10, 2023

MEDIA AVAILABILITY: Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City to celebrate 25 years of service

Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City is scheduled to celebrate 25 years of operations during an anniversary run and ceremony Friday at the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center in Egg Harbor Township.

May 10, 2023

Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection searching for 3 after plane crash near San Clemente Island

SAN DIEGO — Coast Guard, U.S. Navy and U.S. Customs and Border Protection assets are searching for