Washington State Ferries sold two decommissioned vessels for $100,000 each to a buyer who had plans to tow the boats to South America this month. But the move did not happen. The tugboat called Wycliffe had a working crew onboard. "Four crew members from Peru, Ecuador, Panama,” said Cyrus Donato with the International Transport Workers’ Federation. The crew was supposed to tow two decommissioned Washington State Ferries to Ecuador, but their equipment malfunctioned, leaving a crew using work visas without a job. Immigration agents arrived this week and sent the crew home, according to Julia Cooper, the director of operations for Seattle Seafarers Center. "Now that they didn't have a contract, they didn't have a right to be there, according to CBP,” Cooper said. READ MORE: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/immigration-agents-send-tugboat-crew-home-seattle-washington/281-a138eca8-0ea5-49e7-9abc-de1fb5940206