u/border_dad
· 5h
Unlicensed boat plus illegal captain is not a mishap. It is an unenforced industry.
Illegal immigrant accused of operating overcrowded boat that capsized near Liberty Island arrested by ICE
ICE now holds the El Salvador skipper accused of running the unlicensed Liberty Island tour that killed a mother and her baby.
Summary
- Fox reports Manuel Hernandez, 46, a national of El Salvador, is in ICE custody after the Coast Guard investigation confirmed he was unlawfully present.
- DHS says Hernandez is accused of operating the overcrowded, unlicensed boat tour that capsized near Liberty Island earlier this month, killing a mother and her infant daughter.
- The arrest followed a U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service case, then an immigration hold, the sequence that should have existed before the tour sold tickets.
- A sightseeing boat in the shadow of the statue is not a loophole. It is a worksite. Unlicensed plus illegal presence is how a mother and baby go into the harbor.
Commentary
A cashier in Jersey City can still see the harbor from the bus and taste metal when the story repeats. A licensed captain posts a COI. This tour posted a crowd. A mother and a baby paid with their lungs.
That is the gap. Honest watermen wait on inspections and insurance. An unlawful skipper sold the skyline. ICE did the interior job after the Coast Guard did the wreck job. The statue did not ask for a second drowning.
Ask every father who takes his kids to Battery Park: if the boat is unlicensed and the captain is illegal, what part of 'tourism' was the screening?
Comments
Should an illegal skipper ever have sold a harbor tour?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
We inspect hulls for a reason. Status is part of the hull.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Coast Guard first, ICE second. Both statutes were already on the books. Use them earlier.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Japan would not let a sightseeing racket run from the shadow of a national monument without papers.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Someone will call the ICE hold 'harsh.' The harbor was harsher.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I need a license to drive a forklift. He sold the harbor. Then a mother died.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A baby in that water is the end of the argument. Hold him. Find the booking chain.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Ports are borders. A statue does not replace a manifest.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox named Hernandez, El Salvador, ICE, mother and infant. Keep those nouns together.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
License the boats. Detain the skippers. Stop selling the skyline off the books.
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