(EFE)
“Early this morning, United States Border Patrol agents responded to a landing in the Florida Keys and encountered 23 migrants from Cuba,” Walter N. Slosar, chief of the United States Department of Defense, said on Twitter. Miami of that security body.
The photographs published along with the message show that the boat had written on the hull the phrases: “God will provide” and “Even though the road is difficult, I keep walking, God is with me.”
In the first six months of the current fiscal year, which began on October 1, more Cubans arriving by sea have been detained than during the entire previous fiscal year.
In the first six months of the current fiscal year, which began on October 1, more Cubans arriving by sea have been detained than during the entire previous fiscal year (6,182), according to information from the US Coast Guard.
The economic and social crisis that Cuba is experiencing has intensified the exodus of Cubans both by land and by sea, especially to the United States.
So far this year, more than 2,600 Cubans have been returned to their country from the US.
In recent days, the United States Embassy in Havana indicated that people who jump into the sea will not be eligible for the parole initiative launched by the Biden administration last January.
Measure –noted the diplomatic headquarters – it applies retroactively to all persons who have attempted to illegally enter the United States by sea on or after April 27.
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