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set up for evacuees. rosa, what is the story happening here? reporter: there is so much confusion. we just got off the phone with a border protection spokesperson here in miami, and he said it wasn t a humanitarian mission, it was more of a profit mission. he said, yes, bahamians who travel to the united states by ship are required to have a visa. however, he explains that under humanitarian circumstances, the port director usually uses discretion and waives those visa requirements. i can tell you, i was in west palm on saturday when a ship arrived with about 1500 evacuees. and cbp said not all those evacuees had visas, however, because that was a humanitarian mission, because they knew ahead of time that all those evacuees were coming, cbp was able to prepare, they had extra officers on hand to process those