Seven Cuban rafters who managed to make landfall in Key LargoFlorida, this Saturday, were detected and detained by agents of the United States Border Patrol (USBP) in the Miami sector, after disembarkation.
Samuel Briggs IIchief USBP agent in the Miami sector, reported on the event in a publication on the social network
The avalanche of Cuban migrants, mainly heading to the United States, whether by sea or land, shows no signs of coming to an end.
A total of 17,870 Cubans arrived by sea and land to the northern country last Aprilaccording to statistics published this week by the Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
That figure completes a total of 144,378 arrivals during the current fiscal year 2024, which began last October 1, and shows that the largest migratory exodus in the history of Cuba continues unstoppable.
In recent weeks, news of landings by Cuban rafters on the coasts of the United States and other countries, shipwrecks, interceptions and rescues by cruise ships on the high seas have not stopped occurring, with fatal events such as the death of four immigrants when the boat they were traveling in became adrift.
In that last incident, Four other Cubans survived, who were rescued by Mexican fishermen off the coast of San Fernando, in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
The immigrants, in a severe state of dehydration and malnutrition, received medical attention at a hospital in that country and, days later, The Mexican government granted them residency.
This week, it was known rescue of three other rafters, off the coast of Progreso, on the Yucatán Peninsula. The men were in a critical state of health.
The previous week, it was reported arrival of seven Cuban migrants to the Cayman Islands in a homemade boat, but the group decided to continue their sea journeyaccording to the authorities of that British overseas territory, located in the Caribbean Sea.
Also in those days, About eight or nine immigrants arrived on a Miami-Dade beach in a speedboat. Two of them, whose nationality was not revealed, were detained, while the rest managed to escape from the authorities.
The government of The US continues to insist that all people who attempt or arrive illegally by sea will not be able to remain in the countrywill be processed in accordance with US laws and policies, and returned to their country of origin or the starting one.
Migrants who arrive by sea and are detained by the Border Patrol after touching US soil are processed for return to their nation of origin by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) and the Office of Enforcement and Removal (ERO), with the prohibition of legally re-entering that country for five years.
Last Friday, the US Coast Guard (USCG) repatriated 26 Cuban migrantswho had been intercepted on Tuesday morning aboard a rustic boat, in the vicinity of Crocker Reef, near the Florida Keys, according to a statement from the agency.
He Ministry of the Interior of Cuba He reported, in turn, that the rafters had left the country through Villa Clara and were intercepted after three days at sea.
According to the government source, with this they add 40 operations during 2024, in which 571 immigrants have been returned from several countries in the region.
