US authorities repatriated this Wednesday 52 Cuban migrants detained on rustic boats in south Florida.
The Ministry of the Interior (MININT) reported on its X account (@minint_cuba) that the United States Coast Guard carried out a new operation to return 52 irregular migrants to Cuba this Wednesday through the Port of Orozco, in Bahía Honda, Artemisa. .
He adds that this is the 31st return operation from different countries in the region for a total of 429 returned migrants.
This week, arrests of Cubans near the Florida Keys and on land had intensified.
Over the weekend, United States border control forces detained 21 Cuban rafters who disembarked inMarquesas Keys, a group of uninhabited islands about 50 kilometers west of Key West, in southern Florida.
On Sunday, a Carnival cruise ship, which left Tampa for Roatán, Honduras, rescued27 Cuban rafters who were adrift on the high seas and were signaling for help.
On Tuesday, a group of 18 Cuban rafters were rescued after managing to disembark on another uninhabited island in the Florida Keys.
U.S. Border Patrol agents, along with officers from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Southeast Coast Guard, responded to the landing in Key Largo, Florida, on April 23.
Migrants are subjected to tough credible fear interviews and mostly repatriated to Cuba within a few days.
However, the figures attest that the Cuban migration crisis continues unstoppable.
In the current fiscal year (since October 1, 2023) 367 Cubans have been detained at sea by the Coast Guard.
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