Crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Kathleen Moore, a fast response cutter, assist Cuban nationals off their hand-made boat in the Caribbean Sea. The Coast Guard is tasked with enforcing immigration law at sea. Its migrant interdiction operations are as much humanitarian efforts as they are law enforcement missions. In fact, the majority of migrant interdiction cases actually begin as search and rescue missions and usually on the high seas rather than in U.S. coastal waters. US Coast Guard Art Program 2017 Collection, Ob ID# 201717, "Migrants at sea, Karen Loew, oil, 12 x 12
