MIAMI, United States. — The United States Coast Guard (USCG) reported this Monday that it has intercepted 5,862 Cuban rafters since October 2022.
The last immigration detention operation on the island occurred yesterday, when that federal entity took into custody 13 citizens of the island who tried to arrive in the US illegally.
According to the Coast Guard itself, the migrants were repatriated by the crew of the cutter Charles Sexton.
“The crew of the cutter Charles Sexton repatriated 37 Cubans this Monday. The Coast Guard and associated agency crews are preventing people from landing illegally in the United States,” the agency warned on its Twitter account.
The 5,862 Cuban rafters who have been detained by US authorities so far in fiscal year 2023 represent just 320 fewer than the total number of migrants who were intercepted in the previous fiscal year.
Agents from the US Border Patrol and the Florida Keys Sheriff’s Office detained this morning five Cuban rafters who arrived at Sombrero Beach on a homemade boat.
At the beginning of February, the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT) indicated that more than 2,112 Cuban irregular migrants they had been deported from different countries in a total of 25 repatriation operations.
A group of 17 Cuban rafters had been detained on March 7 by United States Border Patrol agents shortly after making landfall on Long Key, an island located in the Florida Keys.
