MADRID, Spain.- The number of Cuban rafters intercepted by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) during the current fiscal year, about to end, amounted to 6,032.
This was specified by the Coast Guard in a Tweet shared this Wednesday, where he again alerted Cubans about the danger that this journey represents. “Do not jump into the sea,” insisted the USCG.
SinceOct. 1, 2022, #CoastGuard crews interdicted 6,032 Cubans. #DontTakeToTheSea
All images: https://t.co/IzAM8GtwFX@USEmbCuba pic.twitter.com/Kk4fOMOK6r
— USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) September 21, 2022
Through the same social network, the entity announced that this Wednesday the crew commanded by Pablo Valent repatriated 50 Cubans to the Island.
“USCG partner agencies are doubling down on patrols to ensure the death toll does not rise as more life-threatening storms pass,” the note added.
Every week, dozens of rafters from the island approach the coast of Florida, where they are generally intercepted by Coast Guard agents and then deported to Cuba, due to the migratory agreements between the two countries.
The current exodus that Cuba is experiencing has surpassed the Mariel crisis and the rafters’ crisis of 1994.
This week The Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported that in the last 11 months a total of 197,870 Cubans arrived in the United States irregularly through land borders.
Only last August, 20,031 Cubans arrived in the United States through this route. While in July 20,496 had done so.
The document published by the CBP specifies that in August 2022 a total of 19,057 Cubans crossed the border with Mexico through the southern US and another 60 through the northern border. With these data, Cuba ranks fourth among the countries with the most immigrants arriving at the southern border in that period; only below Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.
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