The Border Patrol in the Miami sector found 26 Cubans on Monday who would have “arrived in the Florida Keys in the last 24 hours,” according to the agent. Walter N. Slosar. The migrants were stranded on “uninhabited islands west of Key West.”
The natives of the Island were rescued by members of the Coast Guard from the Carolina sector and by Customs and Border Protection personnel.
The arrival of Cuban rafters to the Florida coast has increased even more in recent days. On March 20, N. Slosar reported two arrivals in 12 hours. As a result of the surveillance, the Border Patrol detained 10 Cubans, he stressed. “In March, there were 11 events in the Keys.”
The United States Coast Guard returned this Monday 44 Cubans who were detained in different actions off the coast of Key West. The migrants were returned to the island aboard the coast guard Kathleen Moore.
Since October 1, 2021, Coast Guard crews have intercepted 1,053 Cubans in their attempt to make landfall on beaches in the Florida Strait
Since October 1, 2021, Coast Guard crews have intercepted 1,053 Cubans trying to make landfall on beaches in the Florida Straits. “When these boats are intercepted, people are returned to their country of origin,” he said. it’s a statement Lieutenant Matthew Miller. “The probability of a successful migration journey is low,” he added.
The returnees were intercepted in three different actions. The first was last Wednesday, when the crew of a Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations flight located a boat with migrants 40 miles from Key West. That same day the arrest of another raft was reported 60 miles away. And on Thursday they located other Cubans, without specifying the number, about 50 miles south of Marathon.
The Department of Customs and Border Protection indicated that in the month of February the highest number was registered, in more than twenty years, irregular income to the USwith 16,657 Cubans.
This group of Cubans joins the one on March 12, 17 rafters who also made landfall in the Florida Keys and were taken into custody. Until then, official Slosar counted more than 60 maritime smuggling events between January and February.
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