MIAMI, United States. – Agents of the United States Border Patrol detained 25 Cuban migrants who made landfall on Key Biscayne, in Miami-Dade County, on Tuesday.
The group of rafters was taken into federal custody and the fact is under investigation, indicated on Twitter Agent Walter N. Slosar.
For its part, a team from the Local 10 News channel reported that at 6:00 am on Tuesday the migrants, including at least two minors, were sitting on a sidewalk in Key Biscayne.
“Officers were seen giving migrants water. They all seemed to be in good health. However, a United States Border Patrol spokesperson told Local 10 News that a woman was transported to a local hospital for observation.
According to a police source cited by Local 10 News, the woman is pregnant.
The group is expected to be repatriated to the island, as is regularly the case with Cuban rafters who touch US shores.
The number of Cuban migrants intercepted by US authorities in the last nine months already exceeds 3,000.
Cubans continue to throw themselves into the sea, indicates the Coast Guard
“We urge families in the United States to encourage their loved ones to migrate legally,” said Lt. Cmdr. Mark Cobb, a security officer for Coast Guard District Seven in the wake of the skyrocketing illegal migration of Cubans in recent years. going from the current fiscal year.
“Illegally crossing the unpredictable Florida Straits in crude and improvised boats is very dangerous and can result in loss of life,” he added.
Since October 1, 2021, the beginning of the current fiscal year, US Coast Guard crews have intercepted more than 3,000 Cubans, a figure that exceeds the number of migrants from the Island intercepted each fiscal year since 2017 to 2021.
According to the agency, the statistics have behaved as follows: 5,396 Cubans intercepted in fiscal year 2016; 1,468 in 2017; 259 in 2018; 313 in 2019; 49 in 2020 and 838 in 2021.
“Once aboard a Coast Guard patrol boat, all migrants receive food, water, shelter and basic medical attention,” the Coast Guard has indicated on other occasions.
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