Rescued Seamen to be Deported

Four men involved in a dramatic rescue at sea earlier this week are now facing deportation charges.

The Coast Guard plucked seven men off a raft near their sinking fishing boat Wednesday, about 80 miles off of Atlantic City, N.J.

But federal immigration officials say four of those men are in the United States illegally. Authorities have not said where the men were from.

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