Miami - The United States repatriated 53 Cuban refugees yesterday, the US Coast Guard said. They were intercepted and detained between December 28th and January 1st for illegal immigration.
In 1998, the US Immigration and Naturalisation Service removed a record 171,154 criminal and other illegal aliens, breaking last year's record of 114,386, the agency also announced. Mexican nationals accounted for 81 per cent of them.