(EFE).- More than 75 migrants arrived aboard rafts at different points in the Florida Keys in the last few hours, official sources informed the Local 10 television channel in Miami on Thursday.
On this Thanksgiving Day, the most important non-religious holiday in the United States, at least four landings of migrants were registered in the chain of islands located between the continental United States and Cuba.
“Our teams will continue to patrol by land, sea and air throughout the holiday season. Those attempting to illegally enter the US by sea will be rescued and repatriated,” he wrote Thursday in Twitter Walter N. Slosar, chief of the Border Patrol (CBP) in the Miami sector.
More than 30 immigrants arrived at the uninhabited Marquesas Key, the westernmost of the islets in the Straits of Florida, according to sources cited by Local 10.
Another ten arrived aboard a boat at Cayo Dry Tortugas, a diving tourist destination with no permanent population, 19 landed at Marathon and another 17 at Grassy Key. Additionally, Slosar reported
The information does not mention the nationality of the migrants who arrived in the Keys, but that is the area of the United States closest to Cuba and it is understood that they may be Cuban.
All of them were detained and left in the hands of the Border Patrol.
The information does not mention the nationality of the migrants who arrived in the Keys, but that is the area of the United States closest to Cuba and it is understood that they may be Cuban.
Its agents intercepted 1,132 Cubans at sea during the month of October, a significant figure if one takes into account that in the previous twelve months there were 6,182 intercepted, according to data from the US Coast Guard.
The numbers of interceptions of Cubans trying to reach the US by land are even higher.
The Border Patrol reported last week that a total of 29,872 Cubans entered the United States illegally through land borders in October, in the midst of a migration crisis that has generated the largest exodus of people from the island in decades. .
Most of the Cubans, 28,848 of the total, entered through the border with Mexico.
Only Mexico, with 67,186 migrants, this time exceeded the number of Cubans arriving in the US, according to updated CBP data.
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