MIAMI, United States. — The United States Border Patrol detained this Thursday 22 Cuban rafters who disembarked on one of the islands of the Dry Tortugas National Park.
Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar said that there were 19 men and three women who had arrived aboard a small-scale vessel at the scene.
“U.S. Border Patrol agents and local partners responded to a migrant landing at Dry Tortugas National Park and encountered 22 Cuban migrants. The group (19 men and three women) arrived at the place in a rustic boat,” said the officer in his Twitter account. Twitter.
Dry Tortugas has been one of the scenarios of the migration crisis in the Florida Straits. Hundreds of Cuban rafters have arrived on the islands over the last year and a half. Most of them have been returned to Cuba.
the place remained temporarily closed last January due to the arrival of 300 migrants from the Caribbean island, which forced the mobilization of security forces and medical personnel to provide care to the rafters and coordinate their transfer to Key West.
Located 109 kilometers west of Key West, Dry Tortugas is a visited natural destination that has the historic and unfinished Fort Jefferson, one of the largest in the United States, which was built in the 19th century.
It is a unique site in its combination of a largely intact tropical ecosystem with important historical buildings. It also stands out for its abundant marine life, tropical bird breeding grounds, colorful coral reefs, and legends of shipwrecks and sunken treasures.
