US Border Patrol rescues 14 Cuban rafters in Dry Tortugas

This Friday, the United States Border Patrol (USBP) rescued 14 Cuban rafters who arrived at Dry Tortugas National Park in a rustic boat.

The USBP representative in the Miami sector, Samuel Briggs II, reported that his agents, with support from the Coast Guard, "rescued 14 Cuban migrants who arrived at the Dry Tortugas National Park in a homemade boat."

"These trips aboard homemade boats in rough seas are dangerous and potentially deadly," he warned in a publication on the social network X.

Last week others14 Cuban migrants made landfall in the Keys from Florida aboard a rustic boat after a journey of almost 30 hours.

Samuel Briggs II said the migrants arrived in Tavernier, near Key West and Islamorada, in a rustic wood and metal boat with a sack sail.

In February, the US government recorded a considerably high number of immigrants on its southwest border in the month of February, which could be considered a record when compared to the same period in previous years.

The Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) revealed that during that month there were189,922 immigrant encounters, one of the highest figures reported on its southwest border, for the month of February in recent years.

Of them, at least 6,796 cases were irregular Cuban immigrants who have been reported trying to enter the country by sea.