MIAMI, United States.- The United States Coast Guard detained a group of 15 Cuban rafters on Wednesday after arriving in a homemade boat in the Florida Keys, Walter N. Slosar, head of the rescue corps, reported on his Twitter account. maritime in the Miami Sector.
With this group, the number of Cuban rafters intercepted by US authorities in the last nine months exceeds 3,000, after this Wednesday it reached 3,067 with the repatriation of 32 migrants intercepted in three operations since the beginning of July.
The 15 Cubans detained yesterday arrived in Key West in the morning hours, the information reads, and agents from Air and Maritime Operations (AMO) of the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) went to the place in response to a landing notice .
“Fifteen Cuban citizens were detained after arriving in a homemade boat. Three of those individuals suffered from dehydration and were treated at a local hospital,” Slosar said in his post.
Last week, on Thursday, according to a official note of the federal entity, a navigator spotted a rustic boat with Cubans about 100 miles east of Cancun, Mexico, and reported them to the naval authority.
On Monday, July 4, two artisanal boats with migrants from the Island were intercepted, one 14 miles southeast of Cayo Largo, reported by the crew of a boat from the Cayo Marathon Coast Guard station; the other about 23 miles south of Marathon, a good Samaritan alerted watchers in the Key West Coast Guard sector.
“Coast Guard crews maintain an active presence with air and sea assets every day across the Straits of Florida to help save lives by getting people out of unsafe environments,” said Lt. E’Bria Karega, Coast Guard District Seven.
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