Despite the incident, nothing has changed for how folks can travel from The Bahamas to the U.S.
"All passengers who don’t have U.S. visas, please proceed to disembark," the announcer said over the loudspeaker of the Baleària ferry,The passengers — many of whom are now back on the storm-ravaged island — were left confused and scared.
"They’re saying that they just got a call from CBP, and CBP told them that everyone that doesn’t have a U.S. visa and who was traveling on police record has to come off," Renard Oliver, a passenger who was trying to evacuate,."At the last minute like this, it’s kind of disappointing. It’s hurting because [I’m] watching my daughters cry."
In a statement provided to MTV News, a CBP spokesperson said the agency"was notified of a vessel preparing to embark an unknown number of passengers in Freeport and requested that the operator of the vessel coordinate with U.S. and Bahamian government officials in Nassau [the capital of The Bahamas] before departing The Bahamas." In short, CBP says they didn’t directly tell the ferry to stop, but there might have been some sort of miscommunication between the ferry, the U.S.
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