The relatives of 18 Cuban rafters, who were rescued After managing to land on an uninhabited island in the Florida Keys, they asked US immigration authorities not to deport them to the island.
The wife of one of them, Yunisleidys Borrototalked with Martí News and explained that the Cubans had left “since Friday on a rustic boat towards the United States.”
Since that date, the family had not known anything about their whereabouts, since they left Ciego de Ávila.
After the news of a boat found on an uninhabited island in the Florida Keys became known, Yunisleidys says that they think “that they were the ones who arrived, but no one has called us and we have asked many people for help and no one tells us anything. I don’t eat or sleep. “I have a little girl and I am desperate.”
U.S. Border Patrol agents, along with officers from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Southeast Coast Guardresponded to the landing in Key Largo, Florida, on April 23.
The group of rafters is made up of men and women of various ages. They made landfall on a small, remote island in the Florida Keys, after overcoming a tough migratory route, in search of refuge and opportunities for a better life.
They were found in stable health but visibly exhausted after a dangerous crossing of the Strait of Florida, in a fragile boat.
Precisely, during last weekend, United States border control forces detained 21 Cuban rafters who disembarked in Marquesas Keysa group of uninhabited islands about 50 kilometers west of Key West, in southern Florida.
This Wednesday, US authorities repatriated 52 Cuban migrants detained in rustic boats.
According to the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT), the 52 irregular migrants returned to Cuba arrived through the Port of Orozco, in Bahía Honda, Artemisa.
