52 US-bound migrants apprehended off Puerto Rico packed inside rickety boat

The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted dozens of migrants on Tuesday who were crammed inside a "makeshift" boat near Puerto Rico making a treacherous journey to the U.S.  

The rickety, 30-foot-long, white-colored vessel, which had "J5" painted across its side, was picked up about 27 nautical miles southwest of Puerto Rico’s Mona Island with 51 desperate migrants and a suspected smuggler inside, officials said. 

The 51 migrants are from the Dominican Republic while the suspected smuggler...