The US Border Patrol has taken into custody 15 minors who disembarked along with 27 other rafters in Florida last Thursday. According to Chief Officer Walter Slosar, the migrants were “stranded” on an island and were rescued by the Coast Guard.
The Cubans made the crossing in the boat Beautifullicense plate 5079, but no further details about them have been released.
The arrival of these teenagers in the US comes one day after the official program Round table The illegal departure of minors was addressed and the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic of Cuba (FGR) warned that it is “a crime” and those involved could be framed in “acts contrary to the normal development of the minor.”
In that same program, the Ministry of the Interior assured that it is investigating the case of Bahía Honda, where the Border Guards are accused of sinking a boat with 28 Cubans who were trying to leave the Island. The results of a “thorough investigation with the professional forces,” they assured. Among the seven victims is Elizabeth Meizoso, a two-year-old girl.
“That was not an accident, that was murder, because it was on purpose,” Hector Meizoso specified a 14ymediowho lost her little niece and her cousins Yerandy García Meizoso and Aimara Meizoso in the sinking.
This Saturday, 16 Cubans disembarked at the Curry Hammock State Park in the boat with the name of La Trinida
Meanwhile, the girl’s mother, Diana Meizoso, told Radio Marti that the boat where they were traveling received the impact of the Border Guards in a premeditated way. And then he heard: “Now I’m going to split them in half.”
Trying to lessen the criticism against them, the Border Guards assured that there were and accusations against the Border Guards, according to figures they have “saved 2,085 Cubans in 168 operations, of which, 121 correspond to seven acts of human trafficking.”
The flow of rafters does not stop. This Saturday, 16 Cubans disembarked at the Curry Hammock State Park in the boat with the name of The Trinity. “An individual was transported to a local hospital for evaluation,” Officer Slosar said on social media.
This group joins the 12 migrants who made the journey on a raft powered by a welding machine engine that departed from Camalote, a town located in the municipality of Nuevitas, Camagüey. Another 22 nationals from the Island arrived on a sailboat that same Thursday morning, but these to Marathon.
US Border Patrol agents responded to a migrant landing at Curry Hammock State Park near Marathon, Florida & encountered 16 Cuban migrants. One individual was transported to a local hospital for evaluation. #Cuba #news #floridakeys #Saturday pic.twitter.com/0rSKNgASx9
— Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar (@USBPChiefMIP) November 5, 2022
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