MIAMI, United States. — A group of 17 Cuban rafters was detained by US Border Patrol agents shortly after making landfall on Long Key, an island located in the Florida Keys.
The fact was reported on social networks by Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar.
“On the morning of this Tuesday, 17 migrants from Cuba made landfall in a rustic boat in the Florida Keys. At 6:00 a.m., Border Patrol agents and local partners responded to the landing and encountered 17 adult men,” the officer said in his Twitter account. Twitter.
Last Saturday, 48 Cuban rafters had disembarked in the Dry Tortugas National Park.
According to the US Border Patrol, the migrants arrived on those islands in two boats in which 46 adults and two minors were traveling.
The group of Cubans was transferred to a Border Patrol facility in Key West to undergo medical examinations, according to what he told the EFE Agency Adam Hoffner, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Miami operations division chief.
The Dry Tortugas National Park had been temporarily closed at the beginning of 2023 after a group of 300 Cubans arrived there on New Year’s Eve.
Another group of 22 Cuban rafters had disembarked at the same point at the end of last February.
Since October 1, 2022, the start of the 2023 US fiscal year, US Coast Guard crews have interdicted more than 5,700 Cubans, a number that could soon exceed the 6,182 that were detainees in the entire previous fiscal year.
