The United States Coast Guard is looking for nine Cuban rafters who shipwrecked off Lake Worth, a town in Palm Beach (Florida) 100 kilometers north of Miami. According to a survivor rescued by an anonymous citizen, they left Cuba on December 10 and the raft sank this Sunday.
the american dependency He did not offer further details about the rescued rafter nor the crew of the boat. “The sea is dangerous and conditions change rapidly. Too many migrant lives are lost trying to make the journey,” the Coast Guard warned on its social media.
In November 10 Cubans drowned. The boat in which they were making the journey capsized 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Little Torch Key, in the Florida Keys, an archipelago of about 1,700 small islands.
In a brief report, the authorities reported that the search for the migrants in Lake Worth occurs at a time when the arrival of rafters in Florida has skyrocketed. The Miami sector of the Customs and Border Protection Office recorded in recent weeks the disembarkation of at least 500 rafters who arrived in 20 rustic boats, public Univision.
The chief officer of the Miami sector, Walter Slosar, reported the arrival of 98 rafters in five rafts. “The migrants were located by Border Patrol in the Florida Keys and Key Biscayne.”
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Over the weekend, 98 migrants from #Cuba were encountered in South Florida. US Border Patrol agents with support from @HSTF_Southeast partners responded to 5 migrant landings in the Florida Keys & Key Biscayne.
#cbp #miami #Florida #weekend pic.twitter.com/yfrIZTKWzK— Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar (@USBPChiefMIP) December 19, 2022
On Thursday, 48 Cubans managed to make landfall, arriving in Florida in four boats. The day before, he commented, 80 compatriots from the Island “were taken into custody and another 117 had been found by Border Patrol“.
Officer Slosar also documented the arrival of a fisherman’s boat and two rafts on December 13, in which 37 Cubans made the crossing, including 5 children, who were taken into custody pending their immigration process.
Some others have seen their arrival in Florida frustrated. A group of 21 adults and seven children, who left the island via Cojimar on December 12, was intercepted by a Coast Guard ship and repatriated to Cuba along with 143 other people on December 16, public Cuban newspaper.
This Sunday, 82 people were repatriated to the island aboard the ship Charles David Jr. Coast Guard Lt. Nicholas Fujimoto warned that “agency crews are in full force off the Florida coast, doing everything they can to stop illegal migration at sea.”
According to official data from the agency, since last October 1, 3,450 Cubans have been intercepted in the Straits of Florida, aboard rustic vessels.
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