MIAMI, United States. — A group of 20 Cuban rafters were detained this Tuesday shortly after disembarking in Dry Tortugas National Park, located about 60 nautical miles west of Key West.
As Walter N. Slosar, chief agent of the Border Patrol in the Miami sector, announced on social networks, the migrants arrived at the place aboard an artisanal vessel.
“U.S. Border Patrol agents and local partners responded to a migrant landing at Dry Tortugas National Park and encountered 20 Cuban migrants. The migrants arrived in a homemade boat,” the officer reported in his Twitter account. Twitter.
In recent weeks, the US authorities have thwarted numerous illegal maritime incursions by Cuban rafters in the Florida Straits and have deported dozens of irregular migrants.
Last Sunday a group of 20 Cuban migrants was rescued by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) in the small Dog Rocks Key, in the Bimini district of the Bahamas. The rescue was carried out by the crew of the cutter Edgar Culbertson.
Two days earlier, on April 21, 26 Cuban rafters (20 adults and six minors) were taken into Border Patrol custody after making landfall in the Marquesas Keysa group of uninhabited islands west of Key West.
On April 17 others 27 Cuban rafters They were returned to Cuba in a deportation operation carried out by the crew of cutter Margaret Novell, of the US Coast Guard. The repatriated migrants had been intercepted four days earlier about 12 miles off Cay Sal Bank, in the Bahamas. .
