Puerto Rico: Makeshift Boat With Suspected Migrants Capsizes

A Coast Guard vessel is seen from the open hatch of an HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft during a patrol mission, in the Florida Straits, on July 17, 2021. Marco Bello/Reuters

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Federal authorities detained 17 Dominican migrants on Friday after their boat capsized near Puerto Rico’s northwest coast in the pre-dawn hours, with the U.S. Coast Guard searching for an estimated 10 others still missing.