Twenty-three Cuban citizens arrived this Thursday aboard a rustic sailing boat to Islamorada, in the Florida Keys. They were placed under control of the immigration authorities to be deported.
“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, head of the Miami sector of that government agency, said on Twitter. .
According to the Coast Guard, during the first six months of this fiscal year, beginning October 1, more Cubans arriving by sea have been detained than during the entire previous fiscal year (6,182).
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So far this year, more than 2,600 Cubans have been returned to their country from the United States.
In recent days, the United States Embassy in the Cuban capital said that all people who jump into the sea will not be eligible for the parole humanitarian program, inaugurated by the Biden Administration last January.
The diplomatic headquarters reiterated that the measure is applied retroactively to all people who have tried to reach the United States without documents by sea from April 27 onwards.
EFE/OnCuba.
