Relatives of numerous Cuban rafters who arrived on the coast of Florida at the beginning of January are very worried because they have no news of their loved ones.
They assure that They are no longer at the Dania Beach migrant processing center, in Broward County, but authorities have not yet reported where they were taken.
“There I have my two children, my husband, my brother and a cousin of mine, they say they took them to a prison in Louisiana”, declared desperately to Telemundo 51 a Cuban migrant who arrived in Florida on December 30. She was released but her male relatives remain detained.
"I've been stuck here for three days, without bathing or eating, sleeping in a car thanks to some friends [...] it's one lie after another and they don't give you information because supposedly they can't give information", he added.
Others complain that they receive a phone call from the authorities and then don't end up seeing their family member either.
"If they call you at 7 in the morning to come pick up a family member and it's 9 at night and they haven't given it to you, why did they call you?", questioned another Cuban.
"I have a nephew who left Cuba since Tuesday, he was doing military service, but instead of going to the unit he got on the boat here and we are worried because we don't know anything about him, we have no news about what happened." part of it is there,” commented another citizen of the island residing in Miami.
Officially, the US authorities have not confirmed the transfer of migrants to other states, which keeps families in suspense.
In the midst of this situation with the hundreds of migrants detained in South Florida, on Sunday 273 Cubans were repatriated towards Cuba. Others 53 rafters who arrived by boat in Key West That same day they were taken into custody.
Last Friday the governor Ron DeSantis activated the National Guard to confront the growing flow of Cuban rafters and Haitian immigrants to the south of the state and criticized President Joe Biden's immigration policy.
Through an executive order, DeSantis ordered law enforcement and state agencies to support local governments that are dealing with what he defined in a statement as "alarming influx of migrants landing in the Florida Keys."
The previous Thursday, President Biden had announced that he would prevent the entry of Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans and Haitians, and enabled a parole program so that 30 thousand immigrants of these nationalities can apply for legal entry, work and remain in the country for two years.
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