More than 400 Haitians arrested in January

Click to read storyThe Royal Bahamas Defense Force arrested 120 Haitian migrants in the central Bahamas last Thursday.

On a crowded sloop four miles southwest of Hawks Bill Rock, they found 120 people - 109 men, 11 women without legal documents. That brings the total to 483 arrested so far this year.

The Department of Immigration spent more than $1 million to repatriate 7,058 Haitian immigrants in 2008 and $5 million to return 29, 810 over the past five years.

-Tribune