The Coast Guard of the United States (USCG) returned 27 Cuban rafters intercepted near Florida when they intended to enter that country irregularly, according to official information revealed on the networks.
“This Saturday, the Coast Guard Service returned to Cuba 27 people who had participated in four illegal departures from the country and were subsequently intercepted at sea,” the Cuban Ministry of the Interior reported this Saturday on Twitter (TO MENTION).0
Also in the note they add that with this repatriation there are already 96 migrant returns so far in 2023, both by air and by sea.
In total, they said, there are 4,210 Cuban migrants deported to Cuba from January to date.
At the end of July, the USCG returned to Cuba another 58 rafters who were detained off the coast of Florida, the MININT noted at that time.
The operation to transfer immigrants to the island authorities was carried out through the port of Orozco, in Bahía Honda, Artemisa.
These deportation operations, one of the emergency measures applied by the Joe Biden administration to control the uncontrolled flow of cuban immigrants along the southern border of the United States and the coasts of Florida, show that the Cuban migration crisis is still far from being resolved.
Last June alone, the arrival of Cuban immigrants through US border points totaled 10,885 arrivals, of which the majority were by sea.
According to the Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), of the more than 10 thousand Cubans who arrived irregularly in the country in June, 6,630 did so through the so-called Miami sector, an increase of 16% in relation to those who They entered the same area in May (5,532).
The USCG recently reiterated on Twitter that anyone who is detained in territorial maritime zones will be returned to their country of origin, which is why he suggested that migrants not undergo a crossing by sea.
What do you think?
COMMENTFiled in: