MADRID, Spain.- More than 46,000 Cubans arrived at the southern border of the United States in the last five months, according to records from the United States Customs and Border Protection Office.
According to a newspaper report miami heraldthis figure exceeds the number of rafters (35,000) who arrived in the summer of 1994 and then they were transferred to the Guantánamo naval base.
Regarding the current migratory wave, the Miami Herald pointed out that “a new generation of Cubans is dying in the Straits of Florida in an attempt to flee from a brutally repressive regime, and also from poverty.”
The report highlights the recent case of the Cuban who risked his life trying to reach the United States on a board of windsurfingas well as the number of emigrants from the Island who arrive each day at the US border with Mexico to apply for political asylum.
“Desperate Cubans on the run are new protagonists of an old and sad story, a story of 63 years,” the text points out.
At the beginning of this month, agents of the United States Border Patrol (USBP, for its acronym in English) detained 84 Cubans who entered illegally through the border with Mexico.
The organization pointed out that the Caribbean, in different groups, were moving with migrants from other countries in the vicinity of Normandy, a community in Maverick County, Texas.
While on March 28, a total of 1,500 Cuban migrants stopped at the southern border of the United States, twice the daily average of Cuban nationals who entered the United States irregularly in February.
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