The United States Coast Guard (USCG) returned a Cuban rafter detained in the vicinity of the Florida Keys, the government agency reported this Tuesday.
“The crew of the USCG cutter Kathleen Moore repatriated a migrant to Cuba on Tuesday, following its interception near Islamorada, Florida, on May 28,” details the text on the X social network.
The previous week it was known that the US. 18 immigrants detained at sea returned to the island. Another group of 26 people suffered the same fate a few days before when they were captured during the crossing.
Likewise, seven rafters who managed to make landfall in Key Largo, Florida, were detected and detained by Border Patrol agents in the Miami sector.
The avalanche of migrants from the island, 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 entered the northern country last Aprilaccording to statistics published by the Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
That figure completes the 144,378 arrivals -without counting May- 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, due to political, economic and social conditions reigning in the country.
As an example of the danger that the inhabitants of the Caribbean nation are going through in search of a better future, on Sunday reports of a group of seven women and 12 men who were adrift, somewhere on the coast of Artemisa and/or Mayabeque, it is unknown if to the north or south, while their provisions were scarce. The information was not confirmed by the Cuban authorities.
In addition to Cuban nationals, the Coast Guard has intercepted travelers from the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Haiti, totaling 1,141 between October 1, 2023 and April 30 of the current year.
