Screenshot of a video released by the US Coast Guard showing part of the rescue.
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Teams from the US Coast Guard and Border Patrol rescued 113 Haitian migrants from a boat that made landfall on Saturday near the Florida Keys, both agencies posted on Twitter.
A video released by the Coast Guard shows rescue boats approaching a sailboat packed with people wearing orange life jackets.
According to the tweet, crews moved people from the grounded boat to Coast Guard boats.
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A photo shared by the Coast Guard shows the migrants jumping into the water and swimming towards a rescue boat.
Walter N. Slosar, chief of patrol for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), said in a video that the rescue was a "national security mission."
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The migrants are in CBP custody, Walter said.
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