FLORIDA.- A group of more than 100 Haitian migrants He arrived on a sailboat to the coast of the lower part of the Florida Keys early Wednesday morning, local and federal officials reported.
The boat arrived within 100 yards (91 meters) of a Key West condominium at 4 a.m., and law enforcement responded to the scene shortly after, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office reported. Most of the 118 migrants were men, but the group also included women and children, the police station said.
The landing comes at a time when the Caribbean country is battling an uptick in gang violence that has killed thousands of people in recent years and left hundreds of thousands homeless in the Haitian capital. Gangs have attacked public figures as well as hospitals, schools, and other essential institutions in Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the Americas.
Tens of thousands of Haitians have left their country in recent years, and many have arrived at the southern border of the United States, but President Joe Biden’s administration has implemented measures that have made it even more difficult for asylum seekers to enter across the land border.
With the support of federal, state and local law enforcement, law enforcement officers Border Patrol of the United States intervened in the face of the arrival of migrants Haitianssaid Samuel Briggs II, the agency’s acting chief patrol officer in Miamion the social media platform
The Biden administration has been sending Haitians back to their country since April, when, for the first time in several months, there was a deportation flight. At the time, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that it “will continue to enforce US laws and policy throughout the Florida Straits and Caribbean region, as well as the southwest border.”
US policy is to deport non-citizens who do not demonstrate a legal basis for remaining in the United States.
Source: With information from AP
