MIAMI, United States. – The United States Border Patrol detained this Thursday a group of 10 Cuban rafters (eight men and two women, all adults) who crossed the Strait of Florida in a rustic boat and made landfall in Cayo Colony Beach, according to reported on Twitter Agent Walter N. Slosar.
This is the second group of Cuban rafters intercepted this Thursday. At dawn border patrol too detained 26 Cubans who arrived by sea to Key Biscayne.
Slosar reported in social networks that the group of rafters was made up of 24 men and two women. “26 Cuban immigrants, 24 adult men and two adult women, were detained after arriving in a rustic boat,” the officer said on his Twitter account.
Fiscal year 2023, which began on October 1, follows the same trend in the arrival of thousands of Cuban migrants, who risk their lives to arrive by sea to the United States.
This Wednesday, 15 Cuban rafters were taken into Border Patrol custody after making landfall in two rustic boats in the Dry Tortugas National Park.
According to Walter N. Slosar himself, the migrants were stranded on uninhabited islands and were rescued by the Coast Guard.
It also transpired this Wednesday finding of the bodies of two Cuban rafters that were found in the vicinity of Boca Chica.
The bodies were recovered by deputies from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office during a joint operation with members of the Florida State Fish and Wildlife Conversation Commission.
Last Monday, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) suspended the search for several migrants who were shipwrecked in the vicinity of Key West during Hurricane Ian’s passage through the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Of the 27 Cuban rafters who embarked on this illegal maritime incursion, nine survived and seven bodies have been found dead.
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