Police and Coast Guard officers detained 30 foreigners, including five children, after they arrived on a boat at Los Iros beach in Erin on Thursday.
This is the second time in two weeks that foreigners were held near that beach. Those arrests came one day after six Venezuelan nationals were held on a fishing vessel at Grande Riviere.
The 13 men, 12 women and five children, including a two-year-old, were held by Coast Guard and South Western Division officers as they came ashore.
Officials of the Immigration Unit, Children’s Authority and the Counter Trafficking Unit were contacted.
There has been an influx of Venezuelans in recent years due to the economic turmoil in that country. Last week, three Venezuelan women, whose ages ranged from 22 to 41 years, and a three-year-old boy, were held in a car near Los Iros beach. A few days earlier, police conducted an exercise in that area and held 11 foreigners following a social media video showing people jumping off a boat at Erin beach and wading ashore.